NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon R9 380 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

AMD Radeon R9 380 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 380 OEM 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 190W)

AMD Radeon R9 380 OEM 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 380 OEM +36%

3.29 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

VS

Radeon R9 380 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

May 2015

GeForce 900

Generation

Pirate 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

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

-

1024

Shading Units

1792

64

TMUs

112

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

29.38 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

102.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

3.290 TFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.290 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

205.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

190W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Antigua

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

Antigua PRO (215-0877000)

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

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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