NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs ATI Radeon X1600 XT Dual

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 ATI Radeon X1600 XT Dual

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1600 XT Dual 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 22.08GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce GTX 960

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Radeon X1600 XT Dual

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Unknown

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

690 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

22.08GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

-

64

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.360 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.360 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

RV530

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ultra-Threaded SE

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

90 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.157 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

150 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

Unknown

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x Molex

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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