NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 GT 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 2 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

784 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 +737%

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 GT

0.288 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

VS

Radeon HD 2900 GT

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Nov 2007

GeForce 900

Generation

Radeon R600

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

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

3

-

1024

Shading Units

240

64

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

12

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.212 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.212 GTexel/s

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

288.5 GFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

120W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

R600

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

R600 GT (215RGFDKA13FG)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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