NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

AMD Radeon R9 280X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X 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 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 18% (1178MHz vs 1000MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X +69%

4.096 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 960

2283

Radeon R9 280X +2%

2348

GeForce GTX 960

VS

Radeon R9 280X

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 900

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

1024

Shading Units

2048

64

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Tahiti

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

352 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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