ATI Radeon HD 4850 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4850

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4850 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 4850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (110W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 63.55GB/s)

224 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4850

1 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 +141%

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4850

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jan 2015

Radeon R700

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1127 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

993 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

63.55GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

1024

40

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

25.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

-

1000 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

200.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Board Design

110W

TDP

120W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

GM206

RV770 PRO (215-0669065)

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

4.1

Shader Model

6.4

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