AMD Radeon R9 295X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon R9 295X2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 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 295X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1201MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 295X2 +133%

5.733 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.46 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 295X2

VS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 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

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

1024

176

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.15 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.43 GPixel/s

179.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.86 GTexel/s

-

5.733 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.460 TFLOPS

716.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.86 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

Unknown

900 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

No outputs

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Vesuvius

GPU Name

GM206

Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)

GPU Variant

GTX 960 OEM

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

438 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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