Radeon R9 295X2 vs GeForce GTX 960 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)
1792 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 960 OEM 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1201MHz
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
+133%
5733
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
2460
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Nov 2015
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1176 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1201 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
4GB
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
38.43 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
76.86 GTexel/s
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.460 TFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
76.86 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
Unknown
900 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
No outputs
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
GM206
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
GTX 960 OEM
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
6.7
