NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs ATI FireGL V3600

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

ATI FireGL V3600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 256MB VRAM FireGL V3600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

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

904 additional rendering cores

ATI FireGL V3600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (73W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 +1575%

2.413 TFLOPS

FireGL V3600

0.144 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

VS

FireGL V3600

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Jun 2007

GeForce 900

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

3

-

1024

Shading Units

120

64

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.800 GTexel/s

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

144.0 GFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

120W

TDP

73W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

RV630

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

RV630 GL

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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