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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs GIGABYTE Radeon R9 Fury X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2 GB GDDR5 · 1.18 GHz · 120 W Speed index 2/100

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 has 1024 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.18 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 2.41 TFLOPS.

GIGABYTE Radeon R9 Fury X
GIGABYTE Radeon R9 Fury X 4 GB HBM · 1.05 GHz · 275 W Speed index 7/100

The GIGABYTE Radeon R9 Fury X has 4096 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.05 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 8.60 TFLOPS.

Quick comparison

In FP32 performance, the GIGABYTE Radeon R9 Fury X is 257 % faster than the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960GIGABYTE Radeon R9 Fury X
Speed index
2/100
7/100
FP32
2.41 TFLOPS
8.60 TFLOPS
Boost Clock
1.18 GHz
1.05 GHz
Memory Size
2 GB GDDR5
4 GB HBM
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
512 GB/s
TDP
120 W
275 W
Launch Price
199 $
649 $

GPU

GPUNVIDIA GeForce GTX 960GIGABYTE Radeon R9 Fury X
Based onNVIDIA GeForce GTX 960AMD Radeon R9 FURY X
GPU ChipGM206-300-A1Fiji XT C8
Streaming Multiprocessors864
Shader10244096
Render Output Units3264
Texture Units64256
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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 is equipped with a graphics chip of the Maxwell 2.0 architecture, which has 8 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card GIGABYTE Radeon R9 Fury X is based on the Fiji architecture and is equipped with 64 execution units.

Memory

MemoryNVIDIA GeForce GTX 960GIGABYTE Radeon R9 Fury X
Memory Size2 GB4 GB
Memory TypeGDDR5HBM
Memory Clock1.753 GHz0.500 GHz
Memory Speed7.0 Gbps1.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth112 GB/s512 GB/s
Memory Interface128 bit4,096 bit
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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 is equipped with a 2 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.753 GHz clocks.

The GIGABYTE Radeon R9 Fury X has a 4 GB large HBM graphics memory and the memory clock is 0.500GHz.

Clock Speeds

Clock SpeedsNVIDIA GeForce GTX 960GIGABYTE Radeon R9 Fury X
Base Clock1.127 GHz1.050 GHz
Boost Clock1.178 GHz1.050 GHz
OverclockingYesYes
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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 has a turbo clock of 1.178 GHz. The turbo frequency of the GIGABYTE Radeon R9 Fury X is 1.050 GHz.

Thermal Design

Thermal DesignNVIDIA GeForce GTX 960GIGABYTE Radeon R9 Fury X
TDP120 W275 W
Tjunction max98 °C90 °C
PCIe-Power1 x 6-Pin2 x 8-Pin
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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 has 1 x 6-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 98 °C.

The GIGABYTE Radeon R9 Fury X is equipped with a 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 90 °C.

Cooler & Fans

Cooler & FansNVIDIA GeForce GTX 960GIGABYTE Radeon R9 Fury X
Fan-TypeRadialAxial (Radiator)
Fan 11 x 65 mm1 x 120 mm
Cooler-TypeAir coolingAIO water cooling
Noise (Idle)0 dB--
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The graphics processor and graphics memory of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 are cooled with a Air cooling.

The GIGABYTE Radeon R9 Fury X is cooled by a AIO water cooling.

Connectivity

ConnectivityNVIDIA GeForce GTX 960GIGABYTE Radeon R9 Fury X
Max. Displays44
HDCP2.2--
HDMI1x HDMI 2.01x HDMI 1.4a
DisplayPort3x DP 1.23x DP 1.2
DVI1--
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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The GIGABYTE Radeon R9 Fury X supports HDCP in version -- and all previous versions.

Featureset

FeaturesetNVIDIA GeForce GTX 960GIGABYTE Radeon R9 Fury X
Max. resolution4096x21604096x2160
DirectX12_112_0
RaytracingNoNo
DLSS / FSRNoNo
LEDNo LED lightingNo LED lighting
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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The GIGABYTE Radeon R9 Fury X supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_0.

Supported Video Codecs

Supported Video CodecsNVIDIA GeForce GTX 960GIGABYTE Radeon R9 Fury X
h264Decode / EncodeDecode / Encode
h265 / HEVCNoDecode
VP8DecodeNo
VP9NoNo
AV1NoNo
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This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Dimensions

DimensionsNVIDIA GeForce GTX 960GIGABYTE Radeon R9 Fury X
Length241 mm210 mm
Height--130 mm
Width--40 mm
Width (Slots)2 Slots2 Slots
SFF-ReadyNoNo
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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the GIGABYTE Radeon R9 Fury X is -- and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Additional data

Additional dataNVIDIA GeForce GTX 960GIGABYTE Radeon R9 Fury X
GPU InterfacePCIe 3 x 16PCIe 3.0 x 16
Release dateQ1/2015Q2/2015
Launch Price199 $649 $
Structure size28 nm28 nm
Part-no--GV-R9FURYX-4GD-B
Documents--data sheet
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Manufactured using the 28 nanometer process, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 was released in Q1/2015.

The GIGABYTE Radeon R9 Fury X published in Q2/2015 is manufactured with a structure width of 28 nanometers.

Benchmark results

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL GIGABYTE Radeon R9 Fury X +222.9 %

  1. 17,964
  2. 58,011

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan GIGABYTE Radeon R9 Fury X +218.1 %

  1. 20,498
  2. 65,197

Geekbench 6 - Metal

  1. no data
  2. 58,643

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