
GeForce GTX 960 OEM and Radeon Sky 500 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
Radeon Sky 500
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
GM206
Pitcairn
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2015
March 2013
Bus support
-
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1201 MHz
-
Core clock speed
924 MHz
950 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,460 gflops
2,432 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
-
150 Watt
Texture fill rate
76.86
76.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
7012 MHz
4800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112.2 GB/s
154 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count
-
1
Dual-link DVI support
-
1
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
5.2
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2.131