AMD Radeon HD 7990 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7990

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7990 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7990 's Advantages

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

1024 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 20% (1201MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7990 +66%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.46 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7990

VS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Nov 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

1176 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1201 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

1024

128

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.43 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.86 GTexel/s

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.460 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.86 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

Unknown

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

No outputs

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Malta

GPU Name

GM206

Malta XT (215-0849026)

GPU Variant

GTX 960 OEM

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

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

6.7

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