NVIDIA Quadro P400 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro P400 and AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA Quadro P400

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro P400

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 33% higher core clock speed: 1228 MHz vs 925 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
6.2x lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 185 Watt

Launch date	7 February 2017 vs 31 January 2012
Core clock speed	1228 MHz vs 925 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt vs 185 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

4.2x more texture fill rate: 88.8 GTexel / s vs 21.25 GTexel / s
6x more pipelines: 1536 vs 256
4.2x better floating-point performance: 2,842 gflops vs 679.9 gflops
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 2 GB
Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 4012 MHz

Texture fill rate	88.8 GTexel / s vs 21.25 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1536 vs 256
Floating-point performance	2,842 gflops vs 679.9 gflops
Maximum memory size	3 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz vs 4012 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro P400
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

Name	NVIDIA Quadro P400	AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1
PassMark - G3D Mark	1651
PassMark - G2D Mark	435
Geekbench - OpenCL	3053
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	19.856
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	309.824
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.38
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	25.011
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	84.489
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2709
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2875
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3328
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2709
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2875
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3328
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	617

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro P400	AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	GCN 1.0
Code name	GP107	Tahiti
Launch date	7 February 2017	31 January 2012
Launch price (MSRP)	$119.99
Place in performance rating	983	not rated
Price now	$119.99
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	18.70
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1252 MHz
Core clock speed	1228 MHz	925 MHz
Floating-point performance	679.9 gflops	2,842 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	256	1536
Texture fill rate	21.25 GTexel / s	88.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt	185 Watt
Transistor count	3,300 million	4,313 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	3x mini-DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	145 mm	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	3 GB
Memory bandwidth	32.1 GB / s	240.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	4012 MHz	5000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5