NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X 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

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.46 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X +128%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

Radeon R9 290X

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

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

-

1024

Shading Units

2816

64

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

76.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

2.460 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

76.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

290W

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

Hawaii

GTX 960 OEM

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

438 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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