NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon RX 570
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2015
Apr 2017
Generation
GeForce 900
Polaris
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1127 MHz
1168 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1244 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
112.2GB/s
224.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1024
2048
TMUs
64
128
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
2 MB
Compute Units
—
32
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
37.70 GPixel/s
39.81 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
75.39 GTexel/s
159.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.413 TFLOPS
5.095 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
75.39 GFLOPS
318.5 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
5.095 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM206
Polaris 20
GPU Variant
GM206-300-A1
Polaris 20 XL(215-0910052)
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
GCN 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
2.94 billion
5.7 billion
Die Size
228 mm²
232 mm²
Board Design
TDP
120W
150W
Suggested PSU
300 W
450 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.1
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
5.2
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Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
2,300
3,851
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,025
1,770
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
10
18
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
25
34
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
35
52
GTA 5 1080p
70
100
Battlefield 5 1080p
—
69
Battlefield 5 2160p
—
27
Battlefield 5 1440p
—
51
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.