NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon R9 390X

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1419 points
1474 points
3% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

29 FPS
41 FPS
12 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS
28 FPS
7 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS
39 FPS
19 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS
2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
16 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2293 points
4254 points
85% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz
7% slightly higher core clock speed
1050 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz
12% slightly higher boost clock speed
1050 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB
8 GiB
100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
512 Bit
300% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.2 GB/s
384 GB/s
242% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W
129% significantly lower TDP
275 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

37.7 Gigapixels/s
67.2 Gigapixels/s
78% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s
184.8 Gigatexels/s
145% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.41 TFLOPS
5.91 TFLOPS
145% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024
2816
175% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

64
176
175% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
64
100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

242nd of 589
237th of 589

Family

The product line

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Radeon R9 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January
2015 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.5

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