NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

AMD Radeon HD 6950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

Lower TDP (120W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 +7%

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

VS

Radeon HD 6950

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Dec 2010

GeForce 900

Generation

Northern Islands

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

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

22

-

1024

Shading Units

1408

64

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.253 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

563.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

200W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Cayman

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

389 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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