GeForce GTX 960 and Radeon Graphics 512SP - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 960

Radeon Graphics 512SP

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

GCN 5.1 (2018−2021)

GPU code name

GM206

Renoir

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

January 2015

March 2020

Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

IGP

Recommended system power (PSU)

400 Watt

-

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pins

None

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

1178 MHz

2100 MHz

Core clock speed

1127 MHz

-

CUDA cores

1024

-

Floating-point performance

2,413 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

2,940 million

9,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1024

512

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

15 Watt

Texture fill rate

72 billion/sec

67.20

Memory type

GDDR5

System Shared

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

System Shared

Memory bus width

128 Bit

System Shared

Memory clock speed

7.0 GB/s

System Shared

Memory bandwidth

112 GB/s

-

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2

Motherboard Dependent

Multi monitor support

4 displays

-

HDMI

+

-

HDCP

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

G-SYNC support

+

-

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

-

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.2

2.1

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.7 (6.4)

Vulkan

+

1.3

GameStream

+

-

GameWorks

+

-

GeForce ShadowPlay

+

-

GPU Boost

2.0

-