NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs ATI Radeon HD 5850 Which One is Better

Graphics Card

Release Date

Jan 2015

Sep 2009

Generation

GeForce 900

Evergreen

Type

Desktop

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock

1127 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

-

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory

Memory Size

2GB

1024MB

Memory Type

GDDR5

Memory Bus

128bit

256bit

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

128.0GB/s

Render Config

Shading Units

1024

1440

TMUs

64

72

ROPs

32

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

8 KB (per CU)

L2 Cache

1024 KB

512 KB

Compute Units

-

18

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

23.20 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

2.088 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name

GM206

Cypress

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

Cypress PRO(215-0735043)

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TeraScale 2

Foundry

TSMC

Process Size

28 nm

40 nm

Transistors

2.94 billion

2.154 billion

Die Size

228 mm²

334 mm²

Board Design

TDP

120W

151W

Suggested PSU

300 W

450 W

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

6.4

5.0

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy

2,300

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3DMark Time Spy Extreme

1,025

-

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

10

-

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

25

-

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

35

-

GTA 5 1080p

70

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