ATI Radeon HD 4860 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4860

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4860 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4860

0.896 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 +169%

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4860

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

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

750 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

1024

32

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

22.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

-

896.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

179.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

120W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV790

GPU Name

GM206

RV790 GT

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.959 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

282 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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