NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 6870
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2015
Oct 2010
Generation
GeForce 900
Northern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1176 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1201 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
1024MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
112.2GB/s
134.4GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1024
1120
TMUs
64
56
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
512 KB
Compute Units
-
14
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
38.43 GPixel/s
28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
76.86 GTexel/s
50.40 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.460 TFLOPS
2.016 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
76.86 GFLOPS
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Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM206
Barts
GPU Variant
GTX 960 OEM
Barts XT(215-0798000)
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
2.94 billion
1.7 billion
Die Size
228 mm²
255 mm²
Board Design
TDP
Unknown
151W
Suggested PSU
200 W
450 W
Outputs
No outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
N/A
CUDA
5.2
-
Shader Model
6.7
5.0