AMD Radeon R9 285X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

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AMD Radeon R9 285X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

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

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

1024 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM 's Advantages

Boost Clock1201MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285X +66%

4.104 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.46 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285X

VS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Graphics Card

Unknown

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

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

1024

128

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.06 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.43 GPixel/s

128.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.86 GTexel/s

-

4.104 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.460 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

76.86 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

Unknown

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

GM206

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

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

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

6.7

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