NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs ATI Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages
Released 8 years late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 67.20GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (120W vs 125W)
Score
Graphics Card
Jan 2015
Release Date
Jan 2007
GeForce 900
Generation
Radeon R500 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1127 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR4
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
112.2GB/s
Bandwidth
67.20GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
1024
Shading Units
-
64
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
37.70 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.72 GPixel/s
75.39 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.72 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.413 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
75.39 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
120W
TDP
125W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VHDCI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
R580+
GM206-300-A1
GPU Variant
R580+ XT
(215BAABKA31FG)
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
R500
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
90 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
0.384 billion
228 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.6
OpenGL
2.1 (full)
3.0 (partial)
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
3.0
