NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Boost Clock1178MHz

Lower TDP (120W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870 OEM +6%

2.56 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

VS

Radeon HD 8870 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 900

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

-

1024

Shading Units

1280

64

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.00 GTexel/s

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.560 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

160.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

175W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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