NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs ATI Radeon HD 5950

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

ATI Radeon HD 5950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 302W)

ATI Radeon HD 5950 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

416 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 +15%

2.413 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 900

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

18

-

1024

Shading Units

1440

64

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

120W

TDP

302W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Hemlock

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

Hemlock PRO

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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