NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM 's Advantages
Boost Clock1201MHz
AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
2.46 TFLOPS
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
+132%
5.728 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2015
Release Date
Apr 2017
GeForce 900
Generation
Radeon Pro GCN
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
1750 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
112.2GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
36
-
-
-
1024
Shading Units
2304
64
TMUs
144
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
38.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
39.78 GPixel/s
76.86 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
179.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
5.728 TFLOPS
2.460 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.728 TFLOPS
76.86 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
358.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
250W
200 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GTX 960 OEM
GPU Variant
Ellesmere Gemini GL
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
228 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
6.7
