NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs ATI Radeon HD 5530

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

ATI Radeon HD 5530

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5530 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

944 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5530 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 +2220%

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5530

0.104 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

VS

Radeon HD 5530

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Mar 2011

GeForce 900

Generation

Evergreen

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

600 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

9.600GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

-

1024

Shading Units

80

64

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.200 GTexel/s

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

104.0 GFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

120W

TDP

19W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Cedar

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

Cedar XTX

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

59 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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