GeForce GTX 960A and Radeon HD 5970 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 960A vs Radeon HD 5970
GeForce GTX 960A
3167
Radeon HD 5970
2350
GeForce GTX 960A
Radeon HD 5970
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GM107
Hemlock
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2015
November 2009
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1085 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1029 MHz
725 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,389 gflops
2x 2,320.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,870 million
2,154 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
1600
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
294 Watt
Texture fill rate
43.40
58.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5012 MHz
4000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
80.19 GB/s
128.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
5.0
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A