AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2013
Nov 2015
Generation
Volcanic Islands
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
900 MHz
1176 MHz
Boost Clock
925 MHz
1201 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
179.2GB/s
112.2GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
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Shading Units
1280
1024
TMUs
80
64
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
38.43 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
74.00 GTexel/s
76.86 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.368 TFLOPS
2.460 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
148.0 GFLOPS
76.86 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Curacao
GM206
GPU Variant
Curacao PRO(215-0848000)
GTX 960 OEM
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
2.94 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
228 mm²
Board Design
TDP
150W
Unknown
Suggested PSU
450 W
200 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.7
CUDA
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5.2
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
1,603
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.