Radeon HD 7950 vs GeForce GT 1030 GK107

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated403
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data2.47
Power efficiencyno data4.24
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameGK107Tahiti
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Designno datareference
Release date30 September 2018 (6 years ago)31 January 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$449

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores3841792
Compute unitsno data28
Core clock speed1058 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data1250 MHz
Number of transistors1,270 million4,313 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt200 Watt
Texture fill rate33.8689.60
Floating-point processing power0.8125 TFLOPS2.867 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs32112

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus supportno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length147 mm267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin2x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB3 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth80 GB/s240 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Eyefinity-+
Number of Eyefinity displaysno data6
HDMI++

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

AppAcceleration-+
CrossFire-+
FreeSync-+
PowerTune-+
ZeroCore-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)DirectX® 11
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.1.126-
CUDA3.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 September 2018 31 January 2012
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 3 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 200 Watt

GT 1030 GK107 has an age advantage of 6 years, and 207.7% lower power consumption.

HD 7950, on the other hand, has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 1030 GK107 and Radeon HD 7950. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 GK107
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