NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 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 5 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1201MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.46 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 +10%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Mar 2010

GeForce 900

Generation

Evergreen

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

1200 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

-

1024

Shading Units

1600

64

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

76.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

2.460 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

76.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

228W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

No outputs

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Cypress

GTX 960 OEM

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

334 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

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