GeForce GTX 960 and Radeon HD 5970 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon HD 5970
GeForce GTX 960
6254
Radeon HD 5970
2350
GeForce GTX 960
Radeon HD 5970
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GM206
Hemlock
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2015
November 2009
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
400 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pins
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1127 MHz
725 MHz
CUDA cores
1024
-
Floating-point performance
2,413 gflops
2x 2,320.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
2,154 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
1600
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
294 Watt
Texture fill rate
72 billion/sec
58.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
4000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
128.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.4
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
+
N/A
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-