Radeon HD 5850 and GeForce GTX 960 OEM - video card comparison
Radeon HD 5850
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
Cypress
GM206
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2009
November 2015
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
-
1201 MHz
Core clock speed
725 MHz
924 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,088.0 gflops
2,460 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
2,940 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1440
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
151 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
52.20
76.86
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
7012 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
112.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
5.2
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.126