NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs AMD Radeon RX 590

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 29% (1545MHz vs 1201MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.46 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 +189%

7.119 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Nov 2018

GeForce 900

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1176 MHz

Base Clock

1469 MHz

1201 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

-

1024

Shading Units

2304

64

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

76.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

2.460 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

76.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

175W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Polaris 30

GTX 960 OEM

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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