NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs ATI FireGL V7300

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 and ATI FireGL V7300 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 90% higher core clock speed: 1127 MHz vs 594 MHz
  • 7.6x more texture fill rate: 72 billion / sec vs 9.5 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
  • 47.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 6084 vs 128
  • 2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 673 vs 322
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 22 January 2015 vs 1 October 2005
Core clock speed 1127 MHz vs 594 MHz
Texture fill rate 72 billion / sec vs 9.5 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 6084 vs 128
PassMark - G2D Mark 673 vs 322

Reasons to consider the ATI FireGL V7300

  • Around 24% lower typical power consumption: 97 Watt vs 120 Watt
  • 185.1x more memory clock speed: 1296 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 97 Watt vs 120 Watt
Memory clock speed 1296 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
GPU 2: ATI FireGL V7300

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
6084
128
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
673
322
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 ATI FireGL V7300
PassMark - G3D Mark 6084 128
PassMark - G2D Mark 673 322
Geekbench - OpenCL 18664
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 2284

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 ATI FireGL V7300

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell 2.0 R500
Code name GM206 R520
Launch date 22 January 2015 1 October 2005
Launch price (MSRP) $199 $1,599
Place in performance rating 505 502
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 594 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 9.5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 120 Watt 97 Watt
Transistor count 2,940 million 321 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 2x DVI, 1x S-Video
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) 229 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 400 Watt
SLI options 2x
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pins 1x 6-pin

API support

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

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 112 GB / s 41.5 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 7.0 GB/s 1296 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

CUDA
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost