GeForce GTX 960 and Radeon R9 M390 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 960

Radeon R9 M390

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

GCN (2011−2017)

GPU code name

GM206

Pitcairn

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

January 2015

June 2015

Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

PCIe 3.0

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

-

Recommended system power (PSU)

400 Watt

-

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pins

-

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

1178 MHz

-

Core clock speed

1127 MHz

-

CUDA cores

1024

-

Floating-point performance

2,413 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

2,940 million

5000 Million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1024

1024

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

-

Texture fill rate

72 billion/sec

-

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

2 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

7.0 GB/s

-

Memory bandwidth

112 GB/s

-

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2

-

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® 12

CUDA

+

-

Mantle

-

+

OpenCL

1.2

Not Listed

OpenGL

4.4

4.4

Shader Model

6.4

-

Vulkan

+

-

AppAcceleration

-

-

DualGraphics

-

1

Enduro

-

-

FreeSync

-

1

GameStream

+

-

GameWorks

+

-

GeForce ShadowPlay

+

-

GPU Boost

2.0

-

HD3D

-

+

PowerTune

-

+

Switchable graphics

-

1

TrueAudio

-

-

ZeroCore

-

+