NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs ATI Radeon X1550 PCI

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

ATI Radeon X1550 PCI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1550 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 4.256GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1550 PCI 's Advantages

Lower TDP (27W vs 120W)

Score

GeForce GTX 960

VS

Radeon X1550 PCI

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Jan 2007

GeForce 900

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

266 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

4.256GB/s

Render Config

-

1024

Shading Units

-

64

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.808 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1.808 GTexel/s

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

120W

TDP

27W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

RV516

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.107 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

3.0

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