NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition 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 3 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1201MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)
416 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
+17%
2.46 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition
2.088 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2015
Release Date
Aug 2012
GeForce 900
Generation
Northern Islands
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
1000 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
112.2GB/s
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
18
-
-
-
1024
Shading Units
1440
64
TMUs
72
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
23.20 GPixel/s
76.86 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
52.20 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.460 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.088 TFLOPS
76.86 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
417.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
151W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x DisplayPort 1.1
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
Cypress
GTX 960 OEM
GPU Variant
Cypress PRO
(215-0735043)
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
