Product Compare

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon RX 580G

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jan 2015 Oct 2018
Generation GeForce 900 Polaris
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1127 MHz 1257 MHz
Boost Clock 1178 MHz 1330 MHz
Memory Clock 1753 MHz 2000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 2GB 8GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 128bit 256bit
Bandwidth 112.2GB/s 256.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units 1024 2304
TMUs 64 144
ROPs 32 32
L1 Cache 48 KB (per SMM) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 1024 KB 2 MB
Compute Units 36
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 37.70 GPixel/s 42.56 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 75.39 GTexel/s 191.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.413 TFLOPS 6.129 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 75.39 GFLOPS 383.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 6.129 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name GM206 Polaris 20
GPU Variant GM206-300-A1 Polaris 20 XTX(215-0910038)
Architecture Maxwell 2.0 GCN 4.0
Foundry TSMC GlobalFoundries
Process Size 28 nm 14 nm
Transistors 2.94 billion 5.7 billion
Die Size 228 mm² 232 mm²
Board Design
TDP 120W 185W
Suggested PSU 300 W 450 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_1) 12 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 2.1
Vulkan 1.3 1.2
CUDA 5.2
Shader Model 6.4 6.4