NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8740 OEM 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 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1201MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 OEM +200%

2.46 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

0.819 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Sep 2013

GeForce 900

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1176 MHz

Base Clock

-

1201 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

-

1024

Shading Units

512

64

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

76.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.60 GTexel/s

-

2.460 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

819.2 GFLOPS

76.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

55W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Cape Verde

GTX 960 OEM

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

123 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

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