Product Compare
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon R9 270X
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Jan 2015 | Oct 2013 |
| Generation | GeForce 900 | Volcanic Islands |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 1127 MHz | 1000 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1178 MHz | 1050 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1753 MHz | 1400 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 2GB | 2GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 128bit | 256bit |
| Bandwidth | 112.2GB/s | 179.2GB/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 | 33.60 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 75.39 GTexel/s | 84.00 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 2.413 TFLOPS | 2.688 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 75.39 GFLOPS | 168.0 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | GM206 | Curacao |
| GPU Variant | GM206-300-A1 | Curacao XT(215-0848004) |
| 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 | 180W |
| Suggested PSU | 300 W | 450 W |
| Outputs | 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a | 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin | 2x 6-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 | |
| Shader Model | 6.4 | 5.1 |
| Benchmarks | ||
| 3DMark Time Spy | 2300 | 1769 |