AMD Radeon R9 285 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

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AMD Radeon R9 285 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 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 R9 285 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1201MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285 +33%

3.29 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.46 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285

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GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 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

-

Base Clock

1176 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1201 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

1024

112

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.43 GPixel/s

102.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.86 GTexel/s

3.290 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.290 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.460 TFLOPS

205.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.86 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

GM206

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

GPU Variant

GTX 960 OEM

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

190W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.5

Shader Model

6.7

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