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Radeon R9 380X and GeForce GTX 960 - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 380X vs GeForce GTX 960

Radeon R9 380X
6380
GeForce GTX 960
6254

Radeon R9 380X

GeForce GTX 960


Architecture
GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)
Maxwell (2014−2018)

GPU code name
Antigua
GM206

Market segment
Desktop
Desktop

Release date
November 2015
January 2015

Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCI Express 3.0

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Recommended system power (PSU)
-
400 Watt

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

SLI options
-
+

Bridgeless CrossFire
1
-

Boost clock speed
970 MHz
1178 MHz

Compute units
32
-

Core clock speed
-
1127 MHz

CUDA cores
-
1024

Floating-point performance
3,973 gflops
2,413 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm

Number of transistors
5,000 million
2,940 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
1024

Power consumption (TDP)
190 Watt
120 Watt

Texture fill rate
124.2
72 billion/sec

Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB

Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit

Memory clock speed
970 MHz
7.0 GB/s

Memory bandwidth
182.4 GB/s
112 GB/s

High bandwidth memory (HBM)
-
-

Shared memory
-
-

Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2

Multi monitor support
-
4 displays

Eyefinity
1
-

Number of Eyefinity displays
6
-

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
4.5
4.4

Shader Model
6.3
6.4

Vulkan
+
+

AppAcceleration
-
-

CrossFire
1
-

DDMA audio
+
-

Enduro
-
-

FreeSync
1
-

FRTC
1
-

GameStream
-
+

GameWorks
-
+

GeForce ShadowPlay
-
+

GPU Boost
-
2.0

HD3D
+
-

LiquidVR
1
-

PowerTune
+
-

TrueAudio
+
-

VCE
+
-

ZeroCore
+
-