AMD Radeon RX 470D vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

VS

AMD Radeon RX 470D

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470D 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 RX 470D 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1206MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470D +79%

4.322 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470D

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Oct 2016

Release Date

Jan 2015

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

1024

112

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

135.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

4.322 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.322 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

270.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

120W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GM206

Polaris 10 PROD

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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