NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 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 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 51% (1178MHz vs 780MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 +383%

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240 OEM

0.499 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

VS

Radeon R7 240 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Nov 2013

GeForce 900

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

730 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

780 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

-

1024

Shading Units

320

64

TMUs

20

32

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

499.2 GFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

31.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

50W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Oland

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

77 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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