NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2015
Jan 2014
Generation
GeForce 900
Gem System
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1127 MHz
850 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
112.2GB/s
153.6GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1024
1280
TMUs
64
80
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
37.70 GPixel/s
28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
75.39 GTexel/s
72.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.413 TFLOPS
2.304 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
75.39 GFLOPS
144.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM206
Neptune
GPU Variant
GM206-300-A1
Neptune XT(216-0847000)
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.94 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
228 mm²
212 mm²
Board Design
TDP
120W
100W
Suggested PSU
300 W
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.1 (1.2)
Vulkan
1.3
1.2.170
CUDA
5.2
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Shader Model
6.4
6.5 (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.