AMD Radeon R9 Nano vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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AMD Radeon R9 Nano

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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

Released 7 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Boost Clock1178MHz

Lower TDP (120W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 Nano +239%

8.192 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 Nano +101%

4607

GeForce GTX 960

2283

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon R9 Nano +180%

28

GeForce GTX 960

10

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon R9 Nano +140%

60

GeForce GTX 960

25

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon R9 Nano +114%

75

GeForce GTX 960

35

Radeon R9 Nano

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Jan 2015

Pirate 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

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM

Memory Type

GDDR5

4096bit

Memory Bus

128bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

-

4096

Shading Units

1024

256

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

256.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

8.192 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.192 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

512.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Fiji

GPU Name

GM206

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8.9 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

596 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

6.4

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