Radeon RX 480 and GeForce GTX 960 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 480 vs GeForce GTX 960
Radeon RX 480
8883
GeForce GTX 960
6254
Radeon RX 480
GeForce GTX 960
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Polaris 10 Ellesmere
GM206
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2016
January 2015
Bus support
n/a
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
-
400 Watt
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pins
SLI options
-
+
Bridgeless CrossFire
1
-
Boost clock speed
1266 MHz
1178 MHz
Compute units
36
-
Core clock speed
1120 MHz
1127 MHz
CUDA cores
-
1024
Floating-point performance
5,834 gflops
2,413 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
2,940 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2304
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
182.3
72 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
7.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
112 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Multi monitor support
-
4 displays
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
2.0
+
HDCP
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
DisplayPort support
1.4HDR
-
G-SYNC support
-
+
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
n/a
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
+
+
AppAcceleration
n/a
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
n/a
-
FreeSync
+
-
FRTC
1
-
GameStream
-
+
GameWorks
-
+
GeForce ShadowPlay
-
+
GPU Boost
-
2.0
HD3D
n/a
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
+
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
n/a
-
UVD
+
-
VCE
+
-
ZeroCore
+
-