AMD Radeon Sky 900 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

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AMD Radeon Sky 900 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon Sky 900 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 Sky 900 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 26% (1201MHz vs 950MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 900 +38%

3.405 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.46 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 900

VS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Nov 2015

Radeon Sky

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

825 MHz

Base Clock

1176 MHz

950 MHz

Boost Clock

1201 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

1024

112

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.43 GPixel/s

106.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.86 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.405 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.460 TFLOPS

851.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.86 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GM206

Orthrus

GPU Variant

GTX 960 OEM

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

Unknown

700 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

No outputs

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

6.7

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