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GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R9 M295X

Intro

The GeForce GTX 960 uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 1127 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this specific model. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 M295X, which features clock speeds of 750 MHz on the GPU, and 1375 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960 120 Watts
Radeon R9 M295X 125 Watts
Difference: 5 Watts (4%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 M295X, in theory, should be much faster than the GeForce GTX 960 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 M295X 176000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960 112000 MB/sec
Difference: 64000 (57%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M295X should be much (about 33%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

Radeon R9 M295X 96000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960 72128 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 23872 (33%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 will be much (approximately 50%) better at AA than the Radeon R9 M295X, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960 36064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M295X 24000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 12064 (50%)

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 R9 M295X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year January 2015 2014
Code Name GM206 Unknown
Memory 2048 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 1127 MHz 750 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 5500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 120 watts 125 watts
Bandwidth 112000 MB/sec 176000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 72128 Mtexels/sec 96000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 36064 Mpixels/sec 24000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1024 2048
Texture Mapping Units 64 128
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 2940 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 960

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Radeon R9 M295X

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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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