Quadro RTX 4000 Max-Q vs Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated170
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data28.04
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameTahitiTU104
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date31 January 2012 (12 years ago)27 May 2019 (5 years ago)

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 cores15362560
Core clock speed925 MHz780 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1380 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 million13,600 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)185 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate88.80220.8
Floating-point processing power2.842 TFLOPS7.066 TFLOPS
ROPs3264
TMUs96160
Tensor Coresno data320
Ray Tracing Coresno data40

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinNone

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount3 GB8 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz1625 MHz
Memory bandwidth240.0 GB/s416.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-
G-SYNC support-+

Supported technologies

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

VR Readyno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 31 January 2012 27 May 2019
Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 185 Watt 80 Watt

RTX 4000 Max-Q has an age advantage of 7 years, a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 133.3% more advanced lithography process, and 131.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 and Quadro RTX 4000 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 is a desktop card while Quadro RTX 4000 Max-Q is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1
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