NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon R9 M280X
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2015
Feb 2015
Generation
GeForce 900
Gem System
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1127 MHz
900 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
128bit
Bandwidth
112.2GB/s
88.00GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1024
896
TMUs
64
56
ROPs
32
16
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
256 KB
Compute Units
-
14
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
37.70 GPixel/s
16.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
75.39 GTexel/s
56.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.413 TFLOPS
1.792 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
75.39 GFLOPS
112.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM206
Saturn
GPU Variant
GM206-300-A1
Saturn XT(216-0843024)
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.94 billion
2.08 billion
Die Size
228 mm²
160 mm²
Board Design
TDP
120W
Unknown
Suggested PSU
300 W
-
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
-
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.1
Vulkan
1.3
1.2.170
CUDA
5.2
-
Shader Model
6.4
6.5
📊 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
-