GeForce GTX 960 and Radeon R7 240 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R7 240
GeForce GTX 960
6254
Radeon R7 240
930
GeForce GTX 960
Radeon R7 240
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
GM206
Oland
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2015
October 2013
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Recommended system power (PSU)
400 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pins
N/A
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
780 MHz
Core clock speed
1127 MHz
-
CUDA cores
1024
-
Floating-point performance
2,413 gflops
499.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
320
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
72 billion/sec
14.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
1150 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
72 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
-
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
DirectX® 12
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
+
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
DDMA audio
-
+
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-