GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost vs Radeon HD 7950

GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 26 Mar 2013
GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
Radeon HD 7950
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 31 Jan 2012
Radeon HD 7950

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    100%
  • Radeon HD 7950
    157%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    100%
  • Radeon HD 7950
    133%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost

66 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7950

33% higher gaming performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7950

The Radeon HD 7950 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (1 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 650 Ti BoostRadeon HD 7950
GPU NameGK106 (GK106-240-A1)vsTahiti (Tahiti PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size221 mm²vs352 mm²
Transistors2,540 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders768vs1792
Compute Units4vs28
Core clock980 MHzvs800 MHz
ROPs24vs32
TMUs64vs112

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 650 Ti BoostRadeon HD 7950
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 650 Ti BoostRadeon HD 7950
TDP134 wattsvs200 watts
Release Date26 Mar 2013vs31 Jan 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    15.70 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7950
    25.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    62.70 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7950
    89.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    144.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7950
    240.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    1505.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7950
    2867.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    5800
  • Radeon HD 7950
    9130

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra, DDOD, FXAA

  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    27
  • Radeon HD 7950
    36

FPS (higher is better)