NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon R7 250X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 AMD Radeon R7 250X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 250X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (80W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 +98%

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250X

1.216 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

VS

Radeon R7 250X

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Feb 2014

GeForce 900

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

1024

Shading Units

640

64

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

15.20 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1216 GFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Cape Verde

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

Cape Verde XT

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

80W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

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

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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