NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 52.99GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 140W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 +463%

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850 X2

0.428 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

VS

Radeon HD 3850 X2

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Apr 2008

GeForce 900

Generation

Radeon R600

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

828 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

52.99GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

-

1024

Shading Units

320

64

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.70 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.70 GTexel/s

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

428.2 GFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.63 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

140W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

RV670

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

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

4.1

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