NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 27% (1178MHz vs 930MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 73.60GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM 's Advantages
Lower TDP (65W vs 120W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 960
+153%
2.413 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 255 OEM
0.952 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2015
Release Date
Dec 2013
GeForce 900
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1127 MHz
Base Clock
900 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
930 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1150 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
112.2GB/s
Bandwidth
73.60GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
8
-
-
-
1024
Shading Units
512
64
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
37.70 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
14.88 GPixel/s
75.39 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
29.76 GTexel/s
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-
-
2.413 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
952.3 GFLOPS
75.39 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
59.52 GFLOPS
Board Design
120W
TDP
65W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
Cape Verde
GM206-300-A1
GPU Variant
Cape Verde PRX
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
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
