NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs ATI Radeon X1950 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 GT 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 and 10 months late
Boost Clock1201MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Nov 2015
Release Date
Jan 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
600 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
112.2GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
1024
Shading Units
-
64
TMUs
12
32
ROPs
12
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
38.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.000 GPixel/s
76.86 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.000 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.460 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
76.86 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
57W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
RV570
GTX 960 OEM
GPU Variant
RV570 XL
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
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.6
OpenGL
2.1 (full)
3.0 (partial)
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
3.0
