AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

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AMD Radeon RX 580 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 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 RX 580 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 12% (1340MHz vs 1201MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580 +151%

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.46 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580

VS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Nov 2015

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

1176 MHz

1340 MHz

Boost Clock

1201 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

1024

144

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.43 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.86 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.460 TFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.86 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

GM206

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GPU Variant

GTX 960 OEM

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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