AMD Radeon 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 540

0.908 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 +165%

2.413 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

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GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jan 2015

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1127 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

32bit

Memory Bus

128bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

6

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

1024

24

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GM206

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

120W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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