AMD Radeon R7 265 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

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AMD Radeon R7 265

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 265 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 R7 265 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 30% (1201MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 265

1.894 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM +29%

2.46 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 265

VS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Graphics Card

Feb 2014

Release Date

Nov 2015

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1176 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1201 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

1024

64

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.43 GPixel/s

59.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.86 GTexel/s

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1.894 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.460 TFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.86 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GM206

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

GTX 960 OEM

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

212 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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