AMD Radeon HD 7990 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7990 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7990 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 7990 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 18% (1178MHz vs 1000MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7990 +69%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7990

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Jan 2015

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

950 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

1024

128

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Malta

GPU Name

GM206

Malta XT (215-0849026)

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

365 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

120W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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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