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GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon HD 5870

Intro

The GeForce GTX 960 has core speeds of 1127 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 5870, which has core speeds of 850 MHz on the GPU, and 1200 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1600(320x5) SPUs along with 80 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960 120 Watts
Radeon HD 5870 188 Watts
Difference: 68 Watts (57%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 5870 should theoretically be much faster than the GeForce GTX 960 overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 5870 153600 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960 112000 MB/sec
Difference: 41600 (37%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 should be just a bit (approximately 6%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon HD 5870. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960 72128 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5870 68000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 4128 (6%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 should be quite a bit (more or less 33%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon HD 5870, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960 36064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5870 27200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 8864 (33%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 960 Radeon HD 5870
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year January 2015 September 23, 2009
Code Name GM206 Cypress XT
Memory 2048 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 1127 MHz 850 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 4800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 120 watts 188 watts
Bandwidth 112000 MB/sec 153600 MB/sec
Texel Rate 72128 Mtexels/sec 68000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 36064 Mpixels/sec 27200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1024 1600(320x5)
Texture Mapping Units 64 80
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 40 nm
Transistors 2940 million 2154 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 3.2

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 960

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Radeon HD 5870

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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