NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

AMD Radeon R9 270X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X 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 Clock has increased by 14% (1201MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.46 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X +9%

2.688 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

Radeon R9 270X

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

1000 MHz

1201 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

-

1024

Shading Units

1280

64

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

76.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.00 GTexel/s

-

2.460 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.688 TFLOPS

76.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

180W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Curacao

GTX 960 OEM

GPU Variant

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

212 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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