NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2015
Jan 2012
Generation
GeForce 900
Southern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1176 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1201 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
384bit
Bandwidth
112.2GB/s
240.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1024
1536
TMUs
64
96
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
768 KB
Compute Units
-
24
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
38.43 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
76.86 GTexel/s
88.80 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.460 TFLOPS
2.842 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
76.86 GFLOPS
710.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM206
Tahiti
GPU Variant
GTX 960 OEM
Tahiti PRO(215-0821056)
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.94 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
228 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
Unknown
185W
Suggested PSU
200 W
450 W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
5.2
-
Shader Model
6.7
5.1