AMD Radeon HD 6930 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2011
Nov 2015
Generation
Northern Islands
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1753 MHz
Base Clock
-
1176 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1201 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
1024MB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
112.2GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
-
Shading Units
1280
1024
TMUs
80
64
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
24.00 GPixel/s
38.43 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
60.00 GTexel/s
76.86 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.920 TFLOPS
2.460 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
480.0 GFLOPS
76.86 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cayman
GM206
GPU Variant
Cayman CE(215-0807105)
GTX 960 OEM
Architecture
TeraScale 3
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.64 billion
2.94 billion
Die Size
389 mm²
228 mm²
Board Design
TDP
186W
Unknown
Suggested PSU
450 W
200 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
Shader Model
5.0
6.7
CUDA
-
5.2