AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 21% (1178MHz vs 975MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 XT +24%

2.995 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Nov 2012

Release Date

Jan 2015

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

925 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

1024

96

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

93.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

-

2.995 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

748.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GM206

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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