AMD Radeon R9 285X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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AMD Radeon R9 285X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X 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 R9 285X 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Boost Clock1178MHz

Lower TDP (120W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285X +70%

4.104 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285X

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jan 2015

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1127 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

1024

128

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.06 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

128.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.104 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

GM206

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

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

200W

TDP

120W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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