AMD Radeon HD 7950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2012
Nov 2015
Generation
Southern Islands
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1753 MHz
Base Clock
-
1176 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1201 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
128bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
112.2GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
28
-
Shading Units
1792
1024
TMUs
112
64
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
38.43 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
89.60 GTexel/s
76.86 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.867 TFLOPS
2.460 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
716.8 GFLOPS
76.86 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
GM206
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO(215-0821056)
GTX 960 OEM
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
2.94 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
228 mm²
Board Design
TDP
200W
Unknown
Suggested PSU
550 W
200 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.7
CUDA
-
5.2
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
1,969
-
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,019
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