NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970M
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2015
Apr 2012
Generation
GeForce 900
London
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1127 MHz
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Boost Clock
1178 MHz
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Memory Clock
1753 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
112.2GB/s
153.6GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1024
1280
TMUs
64
80
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
512 KB
Compute Units
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20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
37.70 GPixel/s
27.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
75.39 GTexel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.413 TFLOPS
2.176 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
75.39 GFLOPS
136.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM206
Wimbledon
GPU Variant
GM206-300-A1
Wimbledon XT(216-0836036)
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.94 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
228 mm²
212 mm²
Board Design
TDP
120W
100W
Suggested PSU
300 W
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
5.2
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Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
2,300
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,025
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
10
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
25
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
35
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GTA 5 1080p
70
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.