GeForce GTX 960 and Radeon R9 M290X - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R9 M290X
GeForce GTX 960
6254
Radeon R9 M290X
3360
GeForce GTX 960
Radeon R9 M290X
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
GM206
Neptune
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
January 2015
January 2014
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
400 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pins
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
900 MHz
Compute units
-
20
Core clock speed
1127 MHz
850 MHz
CUDA cores
1024
-
Floating-point performance
2,413 gflops
2,304 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
100 Watt
Texture fill rate
72 billion/sec
72.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
153.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
DirectX® 11
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
Not Listed
OpenGL
4.4
4.4
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
+
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
DualGraphics
-
1
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
HD3D
-
+
PowerTune
-
+
Switchable graphics
-
1
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
+