AMD Radeon R9 285X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Unknown
Jan 2015
Generation
Volcanic Islands
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1753 MHz
Base Clock
-
1127 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1178 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
3GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
128bit
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
112.2GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
32
-
Shading Units
2048
1024
TMUs
128
64
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
32.06 GPixel/s
37.70 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
128.3 GTexel/s
75.39 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.104 TFLOPS
2.413 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
75.39 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Tonga
GM206
GPU Variant
Tonga XT(215-0851313)
GM206-300-A1
Architecture
GCN 3.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5 billion
2.94 billion
Die Size
366 mm²
228 mm²

Board Design

TDP
200W
120W
Suggested PSU
550 W
300 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
6.3
6.4
CUDA
-
5.2

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy
-
2,300
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
1,025
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
-
10
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
-
25
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
-
35
GTA 5 1080p
-
70