NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs ATI FireGL V3300

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 and ATI FireGL V3300 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 88% higher core clock speed: 1127 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • 30x more texture fill rate: 72 billion / sec vs 2.4 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 128 MB
  • 85.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 6066 vs 71
  • 2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 675 vs 326
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 22 January 2015 vs 1 October 2005
Core clock speed 1127 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate 72 billion / sec vs 2.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 128 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 6066 vs 71
PassMark - G2D Mark 675 vs 326

Reasons to consider the ATI FireGL V3300

  • 114.3x more memory clock speed: 800 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s
Memory clock speed 800 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
GPU 2: ATI FireGL V3300

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
6066
71
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
675
326
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 ATI FireGL V3300
PassMark - G3D Mark 6066 71
PassMark - G2D Mark 675 326
Geekbench - OpenCL 18326
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 73.733
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 792.44
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 4.888
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 35.338
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 200.825
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 7218
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3691
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3335
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 7218
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3691
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3335
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2283

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 ATI FireGL V3300

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell 2.0 R500
Code name GM206 RV515
Launch date 22 January 2015 1 October 2005
Launch price (MSRP) $199
Place in performance rating 496 493
Price now $229.99
Type Desktop Workstation
Value for money (0-100) 34.63

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1178 MHz
Core clock speed 1127 MHz 600 MHz
CUDA cores 1024
Floating-point performance 2,413 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 1024
Texture fill rate 72 billion / sec 2.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 120 Watt
Transistor count 2,940 million 107 million

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI Internal
Display Connectors Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2, 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort No outputs
HDCP
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 9.5" (24.1 cm)
Recommended system power (PSU) 400 Watt
SLI options 2x
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pins None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.4 2.0
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 112 GB / s 6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 7.0 GB/s 800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR2
Shared memory 0

Technologies

CUDA
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost