GeForce GTX 960 and Radeon R7 250X - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R7 250X
GeForce GTX 960
6254
Radeon R7 250X
2336
GeForce GTX 960
Radeon R7 250X
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
GM206
Cape Verde
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2015
February 2014
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
400 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pins
1 x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
1000 MHz
Core clock speed
1127 MHz
-
CUDA cores
1024
-
Floating-point performance
2,413 gflops
1,216 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
1,500 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
640
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
80 Watt
Texture fill rate
72 billion/sec
38.00
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
1625 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
96 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® 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
-
-