NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8490 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1201MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 OEM +778%

2.46 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8490 OEM

0.28 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Jul 2013

GeForce 900

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1176 MHz

Base Clock

-

1201 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

2

1024

Shading Units

160

64

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.500 GPixel/s

76.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.460 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

280.0 GFLOPS

76.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Caicos

GTX 960 OEM

GPU Variant

Caicos XTX

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

35W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.0

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