AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2012
Nov 2015
Generation
Southern Islands
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1753 MHz
Base Clock
-
1176 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1201 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
128bit
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
112.2GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
-
Shading Units
2048
1024
TMUs
128
64
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
38.43 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
76.86 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
2.460 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
76.86 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
New Zealand
GM206
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
2.94 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
228 mm²
GPU Variant
-
GTX 960 OEM
Board Design
TDP
500W
Unknown
Suggested PSU
900 W
200 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
3x 8-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.7
CUDA
-
5.2