GeForce GTX 960 and Radeon HD 7970 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon HD 7970
GeForce GTX 960
6254
Radeon HD 7970
5405
GeForce GTX 960
Radeon HD 7970
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
GM206
Tahiti XT
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2015
December 2011
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
925 MHz
Core clock speed
1127 MHz
-
CUDA cores
1024
-
Floating-point performance
2,413 gflops
3,789 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
300 Watt
Texture fill rate
72 billion/sec
118.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
264 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
-
+
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
-
-