GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Radeon R7 Graphics
CORE STATE
Spectre Lite
VRAM
System Shared
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
25 W
BUS WIDTH
System Shared
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 2.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2014
VS
GEFORCE
GeForce GTX 960
CORE STATE
GM206
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1178 MHz
TDP
120 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell 2.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2015
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
R7 Graphics
GTX 960
Core Specs
Shading Units
384
1,024
+166.7%
Shaders
384
1,024
+166.7%
TMUs
24
64
+166.7%
ROPs
8
32
+300.0%
Compute Units
6
—
Clocks
Base Clock
—
1127 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1178 MHz
GPU Clock
720 MHz
—
Memory Clock
System Shared
1753 MHz
7 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
System Shared
2 GB
VRAM (MB)
—
2,048
Memory Type
System Shared
GDDR5
Memory Bus
System Shared
128 bit
Bandwidth
System Dependent
112.2 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
—
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
—
1024 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
5.760 GPixel/s
37.70 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
17.28 GTexel/s
75.39 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
553.0 GFLOPS
2.413 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
34.56 GFLOPS (1:16)
75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)
Power
TDP
25 W
120 W
TDP (W)
25
120
+380.0%
Suggested PSU
—
300 W
Power Connectors
—
1x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Maxwell 2.0
GPU Name
Spectre Lite
GM206
Generation
GCN 2.0 IGP
(Kaveri)
GeForce 900
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2,410 million
2,940 million
Die Size
245 mm²
228 mm²
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Density
9.8M / mm²
12.9M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.4
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
CUDA
—
5.2
Shader Model
6.5
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
IGP
Dual-slot
Length
—
241 mm
9.5 inches
Outputs
Motherboard Dependent
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2
Bus Interface
IGP
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
—
199 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
TeraScale 3 IGP
GeForce 700
Successor
GCN 3.0 IGP
GeForce 10