GeForce GTX 960 and Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 960
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
GM206
Tahiti
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2015
June 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 + 1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
1050 MHz
Core clock speed
1127 MHz
-
CUDA cores
1024
-
Floating-point performance
2,413 gflops
4,301 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
250 Watt
Texture fill rate
72 billion/sec
134.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
288 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)
DirectX® 11
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
-
-