GeForce GTX 960 and Radeon HD 7850 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon HD 7850
GeForce GTX 960
6254
Radeon HD 7850
3976
GeForce GTX 960
Radeon HD 7850
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
GM206
Pitcairn
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2015
March 2012
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCIe 2.1 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
400 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pins
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
1000 MHz
Core clock speed
1127 MHz
-
CUDA cores
1024
-
Floating-point performance
2,413 gflops
1,761 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
130 Watt
Texture fill rate
72 billion/sec
55.04
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
153.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
+
+
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-