NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs ATI Radeon HD 4250

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

ATI Radeon HD 4250

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 6.336GB/s)

984 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4250 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 +4927%

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4250

0.048 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

VS

Radeon HD 4250

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Feb 2009

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

396 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

6.336GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

-

1024

Shading Units

40

64

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.376 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.376 GTexel/s

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

47.52 GFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

120W

TDP

25W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

RV620

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

RV620 LE

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.181 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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