AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Fiji GM206
GPU variant Fiji XT GM206-300-A1
Architecture GCN 3.0 Maxwell 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 28 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 8,900 million 2,940 million
Die size 596 mm² 228 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Dec 12th, 2016 Jan 22nd, 2015
Generation Radeon Instinct GeForce 900
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Launch price 199 USD
Reviews 124 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 700
Successor GeForce 10

Clocks

GPU clock 1000 MHz
Memory clock 500 MHz 1000 Mbps effective 1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective
Base clock 1127 MHz
Boost clock 1178 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 4 GB 2 GB
Memory type HBM GDDR5
Memory bus width 4096 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 512.0 GB/s 112.2 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 4096 1024
TMUs 256 64
ROPs 64 32
Compute units 64
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU) 48 KB (per SMM)
Cache L2 2 MB 1024 KB
SMM count 8

Performance

Pixel rate 64.00 GPixel/s 37.70 GPixel/s
Texture rate 256.0 GTexel/s 75.39 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) performance 8.192 TFLOPS (1:1)
FP32 (float) performance 8.192 TFLOPS 2.413 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 512.0 GFLOPS (1:16) 75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
Length 152 mm 6 inches 241 mm 9.5 inches
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches
TDP 175 W 120 W
Suggested PSU 450 W 300 W
Outputs No outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI3x DisplayPort
Power connectors 1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin
Board number PG301

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (12_0) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.0 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.1
Shader model 6.3 6.4
CUDA 5.2

Other Features

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