NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R9 260 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 1 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1201MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
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 R9 260 OEM
1.971 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2015
Release Date
Dec 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
1024MB
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
85W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
Bonaire
GTX 960 OEM
GPU Variant
Bonaire XT
(215-0839039)
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
