NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs ATI FireGL V5600

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 512MB VRAM FireGL V5600 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 5 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 35.20GB/s)

904 additional rendering cores

ATI FireGL V5600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (89W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 +1156%

2.413 TFLOPS

FireGL V5600

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

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FireGL V5600

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Aug 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

1100 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

35.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

3

1024

Shading Units

120

64

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.400 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

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

Board Design

120W

TDP

89W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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