NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM AMD Radeon HD 6870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 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 1 months late

Boost Clock1201MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

AMD Radeon HD 6870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

96 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 OEM +22%

2.46 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 6870

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Oct 2010

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

1050 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

14

1024

Shading Units

1120

64

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

76.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.460 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.016 TFLOPS

76.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Barts

GTX 960 OEM

GPU Variant

Barts XT (215-0798000)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

151W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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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