AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 OEM 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 RX 580 OEM 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1266MHz vs 1201MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580 OEM +137%

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.46 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Nov 2015

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

1176 MHz

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

1201 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

1024

144

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.43 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.86 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.460 TFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.86 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GM206

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

GTX 960 OEM

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

6.7

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