NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 1024SP 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 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 30% (1201MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP 's Advantages

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 OEM +29%

2.46 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

1.894 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Mar 2015

GeForce 900

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1176 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1201 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

16

1024

Shading Units

1024

64

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

76.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

59.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.460 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.894 TFLOPS

76.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

118.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GTX 960 OEM

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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