AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 Which One is Better

Graphics Card

Release Date

Jun 2016

Jan 2015

Generation

Polaris

GeForce 900

Type

Desktop

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

1178 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory

Memory Size

8GB

2GB

Memory Type

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256bit

128bit

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

112.2GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units

36

-

Shading Units

2304

1024

TMUs

144

64

ROPs

32

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

37.70 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

-

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GM206

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT(215-0876184)

GM206-300-A1

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Maxwell 2.0

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

TSMC

Process Size

14 nm

28 nm

Transistors

5.7 billion

2.94 billion

Die Size

232 mm²

228 mm²

Board Design

TDP

150W

120W

Suggested PSU

450 W

300 W

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

OpenCL

2.1

3.0

Vulkan

1.2

1.3

Shader Model

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