GeForce GTX 960 and Radeon RX 570 X2 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 960
Radeon RX 570 X2
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
GM206
Polaris 20
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2015
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Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
400 Watt
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Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pins
2x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
1206 MHz
Core clock speed
1127 MHz
-
CUDA cores
1024
-
Floating-point performance
2,413 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
180 Watt
Texture fill rate
72 billion/sec
154.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
8.4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
268.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.0b
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.7
Vulkan
+
1.3
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
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