GeForce GTX 960 and Radeon R5 230 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R5 230
GeForce GTX 960
6254
Radeon R5 230
228
GeForce GTX 960
Radeon R5 230
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GM206
Caicos
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2015
April 2014
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCIe 1.0 x4
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
400 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pins
N/A
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1127 MHz
-
CUDA cores
1024
-
Floating-point performance
2,413 gflops
200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
160
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
19 Watt
Texture fill rate
72 billion/sec
5.000
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
-
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
10.67 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
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
4.4
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
+
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
DDMA audio
-
-
Enduro
-
-
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerPlay
-
+
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-