NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1201MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 OEM +416%

2.46 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

0.476 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 900

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1176 MHz

Base Clock

-

1201 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

106.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

-

1024

Shading Units

320

64

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.89 GPixel/s

76.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.89 GTexel/s

-

2.460 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

475.5 GFLOPS

76.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

215W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

R600

GTX 960 OEM

GPU Variant

R600 XT (215RGMDKA13FG)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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