AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

VS

AMD Radeon Sky 500

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 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 Sky 500 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 500

2.432 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Jan 2015

Radeon Sky

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

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

1024

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

76.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

-

2.432 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

152.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GM206

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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