AMD Radeon R5 240 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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AMD Radeon R5 240 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 240 OEM 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 R5 240 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 51% (1178MHz vs 780MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 240 OEM

0.599 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 +302%

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 240 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Jan 2015

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

730 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

780 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

6

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

1024

24

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

6.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

18.72 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

599.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

37.44 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Oland

GPU Name

GM206

-

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

120W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

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

None

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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