Radeon RX 580 and GeForce GTX 960 OEM - video card comparison
Radeon RX 580
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
Polaris 20
GM206
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2017
November 2015
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1340 MHz
1201 MHz
Core clock speed
1257 MHz
924 MHz
Floating-point performance
6,175 gflops
2,460 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)
185 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
193.0
76.86
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
7012 MHz
Memory bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
112.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
5.2
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.1.126