AMD Radeon R9 M270X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Feb 2015
Jan 2015
Generation
Gem System
GeForce 900
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
900 MHz
1127 MHz
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
128bit
Bandwidth
88.00GB/s
112.2GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
12
—
Shading Units
768
1024
TMUs
48
64
ROPs
16
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
256 KB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
16.00 GPixel/s
37.70 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
48.00 GTexel/s
75.39 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.536 TFLOPS
2.413 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
96.00 GFLOPS
75.39 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Saturn
GM206
GPU Variant
Saturn PRO(216-0843044)
GM206-300-A1
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.08 billion
2.94 billion
Die Size
160 mm²
228 mm²
Board Design
TDP
Unknown
120W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Suggested PSU
—
300 W
Power Connectors
—
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.3
Shader Model
6.5
6.4
CUDA
—
5.2
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
2,300
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
1,025
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
—
10
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
—
25
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
—
35
GTA 5 1080p
—
70
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.