NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs ATI Radeon X1700 SE

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM ATI Radeon X1700 SE

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1700 SE 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 8 years late

Boost Clock1201MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

Radeon X1700 SE

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Nov 2007

GeForce 900

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1176 MHz

Base Clock

-

1201 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

-

64

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

38.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

76.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.460 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

76.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

RV560

GTX 960 OEM

GPU Variant

RV560 SE

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

230 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

50W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

3.0

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