GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs Radeon HD 6850 X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 960 OEM 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock1201MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
64 additional rendering cores
Radeon HD 6850 X2 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
+60%
2460
Radeon HD 6850 X2
1536
Graphics Card
Nov 2015
Release Date
Sep 2011
GeForce 900
Generation
Northern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1176 MHz
Base Clock
-
1201 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
112.2GB/s
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
12
1024
Shading Units
960
64
TMUs
48
32
ROPs
32
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
38.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
76.86 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.40 GTexel/s
2.460 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.536 TFLOPS
76.86 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
254W
200 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x DisplayPort 1.1
None
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
Barts
GTX 960 OEM
GPU Variant
Barts PRO
(215-0798006)
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
1.7 billion
228 mm²
Die Size
255 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
5.0
