NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs ATI Radeon HD 3850

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 ATI Radeon HD 3850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 53.12GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 +463%

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850

0.428 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

VS

Radeon HD 3850

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Nov 2007

GeForce 900

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

830 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

53.12GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

1024

Shading Units

320

64

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.69 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.69 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

427.5 GFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.50 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

RV670

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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