Radeon R7 260X and GeForce GTX 960 OEM - video card comparison
Radeon R7 260X
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
Bonaire
GM206
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
November 2015
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
1201 MHz
Core clock speed
-
924 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,971 gflops
2,460 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,080 million
2,940 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
896
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
115 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
61.60
76.86
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
7012 MHz
Memory bandwidth
104 GB/s
112.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
5.2
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
6.4
Vulkan
-
1.1.126
AppAcceleration
-
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-