GeForce GT 545 vs Radeon HD 7950 Boost

GeForce GT 545
Memory: 1536Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 14 May 2011
GeForce GT 545
Radeon HD 7950 Boost
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Jun 2012
Radeon HD 7950 Boost

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 545

130 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7950 Boost .
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7950 Boost

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 7950 Boost

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7950 Boost

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 545Radeon HD 7950 Boost
GPU NameGF116 (GF116-400-A1)vsTahiti (Tahiti PRO2)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size238 mm²vs352 mm²
Transistors1,170 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders144vs1792
Compute Units3vs28
Core clock720 MHzvs850 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs24vs112

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 545Radeon HD 7950 Boost
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size1536 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 545Radeon HD 7950 Boost
TDP70 wattsvs200 watts
Release Date14 May 2011vs22 Jun 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 545
    4.32 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    27.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 545
    17.30 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    95.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 545
    38.40 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    240.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 545
    414.70 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    3046.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better