AMD Radeon R9 390 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

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AMD Radeon R9 390 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390 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 390 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM 's Advantages

Boost Clock1201MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 390 +108%

5.12 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.46 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 390

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GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Nov 2015

Pirate 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

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

1024

160

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.43 GPixel/s

160.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.86 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

5.120 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.460 TFLOPS

640.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.86 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Grenada

GPU Name

GM206

Grenada PRO (215-0880030)

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

Board Design

275W

TDP

Unknown

600 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 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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