GeForce GTX 960 and Radeon HD 7870 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon HD 7870 XT
GeForce GTX 960
6254
Radeon HD 7870 XT
4603
GeForce GTX 960
Radeon HD 7870 XT
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
GM206
Tahiti
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2015
November 2012
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
400 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pins
2x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
975 MHz
Core clock speed
1127 MHz
925 MHz
CUDA cores
1024
-
Floating-point performance
2,413 gflops
2,995 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
1536
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
185 Watt
Texture fill rate
72 billion/sec
93.60
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
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
192.0 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
-
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
+
1.2.131
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-