AMD Radeon R7 240 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

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AMD Radeon R7 240 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 54% (1201MHz vs 780MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 240

0.499 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM +392%

2.46 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240

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GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Nov 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

1176 MHz

780 MHz

Boost Clock

1201 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

5

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

1024

20

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

6.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.43 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.86 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

499.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.460 TFLOPS

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FP64 (double)

76.86 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Oland

GPU Name

GM206

Oland PRO (215-0837015)

GPU Variant

GTX 960 OEM

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

30W

TDP

Unknown

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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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