NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon R9 FURY

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

AMD Radeon R9 FURY

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 FURY 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 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 FURY 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 FURY +197%

7.168 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 960

2283

Radeon R9 FURY +107%

4736

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 960

10

Radeon R9 FURY +150%

25

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 960

25

Radeon R9 FURY +120%

55

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 960

35

Radeon R9 FURY +100%

70

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 960

70

Radeon R9 FURY +105%

144

GeForce GTX 960

VS

Radeon R9 FURY

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Jul 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

500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM

128bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

56

-

1024

Shading Units

3584

64

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

224.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.168 TFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.168 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

448.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

275W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Fiji

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

Fiji PRO CB (215-0862046)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

596 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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