Radeon R9 295X2 vs GeForce GTX 960
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)
1792 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages
Released 9 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
Lower TDP (120W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
+137%
5733
GeForce GTX 960
2413
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Jan 2015
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1127 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
128bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
112.2GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
2816
Shading Units
1024
176
TMUs
64
64
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
37.70 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
75.39 GTexel/s
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.413 TFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
75.39 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
120W
900 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
GM206
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
GM206-300-A1
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
2.94 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
228 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
5.2
6.3
Shader Model
6.4