ATI Radeon X1950 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

VS

ATI Radeon X1950 GT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 GT and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon X1950 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (57W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X1950 GT

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Jan 2007

Release Date

Jan 2015

Radeon R500 PCIe

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1127 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

600 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

38.40GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Shading Units

1024

12

TMUs

64

12

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

-

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

6.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Board Design

57W

TDP

120W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV570

GPU Name

GM206

RV570 XL

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

R500

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.33 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

230 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

3.0

Shader Model

6.4

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