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Radeon R9 295X2 and GeForce GTX 960 - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 295X2 vs GeForce GTX 960

Radeon R9 295X2
8876
GeForce GTX 960
6254

Radeon R9 295X2

GeForce GTX 960


Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Maxwell (2014−2018)

GPU code name
Vesuvius
GM206

Market segment
Desktop
Desktop

Release date
April 2014
January 2015

Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
PCI Express 3.0

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Recommended system power (PSU)
-
400 Watt

Supplementary power connectors
2 x 8-pin
1x 6-pins

SLI options
-
+

Boost clock speed
1018 MHz
1178 MHz

Core clock speed
-
1127 MHz

CUDA cores
-
1024

Floating-point performance
2x 5,733 gflops
2,413 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm

Number of transistors
6,200 million
2,940 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
1024

Power consumption (TDP)
500 Watt
120 Watt

Texture fill rate
179.2
72 billion/sec

Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB

Memory bus width
512 Bit
128 Bit

Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
7.0 GB/s

Memory bandwidth
640 GB/s
112 GB/s

Shared memory
-
-

Display Connectors
1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2

Multi monitor support
-
4 displays

Eyefinity
1
-

HDMI
+
+

HDCP
-
+

Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536

DisplayPort support
-
-

G-SYNC support
-
+

Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal

DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (12_1)

CUDA
-
+

Mantle
-
-

OpenCL
2.0
1.2

OpenGL
4.6
4.4

Shader Model
6.3
6.4

Vulkan
+
+

AppAcceleration
-
-

CrossFire
1
-

DDMA audio
+
-

Enduro
-
-

FreeSync
1
-

GameStream
-
+

GameWorks
-
+

GeForce ShadowPlay
-
+

GPU Boost
-
2.0

HD3D
+
-

LiquidVR
1
-

PowerTune
-
-

TressFX
1
-

TrueAudio
-
-

UVD
+
-

ZeroCore
-
-