GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs Radeon R5 230 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 960 OEM 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1201MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)
864 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
+1130%
2460
Radeon R5 230 OEM
200
Graphics Card
Nov 2015
Release Date
Dec 2013
GeForce 900
Generation
Volcanic 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
667 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
112.2GB/s
Bandwidth
10.67GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
2
1024
Shading Units
160
64
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
38.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.500 GPixel/s
76.86 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.000 GTexel/s
2.460 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
200.0 GFLOPS
76.86 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
19W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
Caicos
GTX 960 OEM
GPU Variant
Caicos PRO
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
0.37 billion
228 mm²
Die Size
67 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