NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2015
Aug 2012
Generation
GeForce 900
Southern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1127 MHz
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Boost Clock
1178 MHz
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Memory Clock
1753 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
384bit
Bandwidth
112.2GB/s
264.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1024
2048
TMUs
64
128
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
768 KB
Compute Units
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32
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
37.70 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
75.39 GTexel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.413 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
75.39 GFLOPS
947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM206
New Zealand
GPU Variant
GM206-300-A1
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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
120W
500W
Suggested PSU
300 W
900 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
3x 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
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Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
2,300
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,025
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
10
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
25
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
35
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GTA 5 1080p
70
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.