AMD Radeon RX 590 GME vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Mar 2020
Jan 2015
Generation
Polaris
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1257 MHz
1127 MHz
Boost Clock
1420 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
1753 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
8GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
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
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
45.44 GPixel/s
37.70 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
204.5 GTexel/s
75.39 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
6.543 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
6.543 TFLOPS
2.413 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
409.0 GFLOPS
75.39 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Polaris 20
GM206
GPU Variant
Polaris 20 XTR(215-0910066)
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
175W
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 8-pin
1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
Shader Model
6.7
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