GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon HD 7950
Summary
GeForce GTX 960
113%
Radeon HD 7950
100%
Relative performance
GeForce GTX 960
109%
Radeon HD 7950
100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 960 |
9% higher gaming performance. |
80 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7950 . |
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
Supports PhysX |
Supports G-Sync |
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7950 |
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 960
The GeForce GTX 960 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (5 combinations of games and resolutions).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 960 | | Radeon HD 7950 | |
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GPU Name | GM206 (GM206-300-A1) | vs | Tahiti (Tahiti PRO) |
Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
Die Size | 228 mm² | vs | 352 mm² |
Transistors | 2,940 million | vs | 4,313 million |
Shaders | 1024 | vs | 1792 |
Compute Units | 8 | vs | 28 |
Core clock | 1127 MHz | vs | 800 MHz |
ROPs | 32 | vs | 32 |
TMUs | 64 | vs | 112 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 960 | | Radeon HD 7950 | |
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Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 384 bit |
Memory Speed | 1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective | vs | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 3072 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 960 | | Radeon HD 7950 | |
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TDP | 120 watts | vs | 200 watts |
Release Date | 22 Jan 2015 | vs | 31 Jan 2012 |
GeForce GTX 960
36.10 GP/s
Radeon HD 7950
25.60 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 960
72.10 GT/s
Radeon HD 7950
89.60 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 960
112.20 GB/s
Radeon HD 7950
240.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 960
2308.10 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 7950
2867.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GTX 960
10380
Radeon HD 7950
9130
Points (higher is better)
DX11, Ultra, 4x MSAA, 16x AF, HBAO
GeForce GTX 960
25
Radeon HD 7950
24
FPS (higher is better)
DX11, Ultra, DDOD, FXAA
GeForce GTX 960
47
Radeon HD 7950
36
FPS (higher is better)
DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA
GeForce GTX 960
37
Radeon HD 7950
35
FPS (higher is better)
DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA,EP3 Gator Bait
GeForce GTX 960
34
Radeon HD 7950
34
FPS (higher is better)
DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA
GeForce GTX 960
53
Radeon HD 7950
49
FPS (higher is better)