Radeon HD 3850 X3 vs GeForce GTX 960 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 X3 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 960 OEM Advantages
Boost Clock1201MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)
704 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 3850 X3
428
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
+474%
2460
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Nov 2015
Radeon R600
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1176 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1201 MHz
850 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
54.40GB/s
Bandwidth
112.2GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
320
Shading Units
1024
16
TMUs
64
16
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
10.70 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
38.43 GPixel/s
10.70 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
76.86 GTexel/s
428.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.460 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
76.86 GFLOPS
Board Design
145W
TDP
Unknown
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
4x DVI
Outputs
No outputs
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
GM206
RV670 PRO
(215-0708003)
(215-0708003)
GPU Variant
GTX 960 OEM
TeraScale
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
2.94 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
228 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
5.2
4.1
Shader Model
6.7
