NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

AMD Radeon R9 280X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X 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 20% (1201MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.46 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X +66%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

Radeon R9 280X

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

850 MHz

1201 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

1024

Shading Units

2048

64

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

76.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

2.460 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

76.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

250W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Tahiti

GTX 960 OEM

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

352 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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