NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs AMD Radeon R7 260X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

AMD Radeon R7 260X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X 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 1 months late

Boost Clock1201MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 OEM +24%

2.46 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

Radeon R7 260X

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 900

Generation

Volcanic 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

1625 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

-

1024

Shading Units

896

64

TMUs

56

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

17.60 GPixel/s

76.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

-

2.460 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

76.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

115W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Bonaire

GTX 960 OEM

GPU Variant

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.3

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