NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon R9 285X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 AMD Radeon R9 285X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Boost Clock1178MHz

Lower TDP (120W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon R9 285X 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285X +70%

4.104 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

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Radeon R9 285X

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 900

Generation

Volcanic 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

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

1024

Shading Units

2048

64

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.06 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.104 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Tonga

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

5 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

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 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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