NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz 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 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 14% (1201MHz vs 1050MHz)
More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)
AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
2.46 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
+74%
4.301 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2015
Release Date
Jun 2012
GeForce 900
Generation
Southern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1176 MHz
Base Clock
1000 MHz
1201 MHz
Boost Clock
1050 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
112.2GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
-
-
-
1024
Shading Units
2048
64
TMUs
128
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
38.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
33.60 GPixel/s
76.86 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
134.4 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.460 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.301 TFLOPS
76.86 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1075 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
300W
200 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
Tahiti
GTX 960 OEM
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT2
(215-0821065)
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
228 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
5.2
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
5.1
