GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R9 290X

  Nvidia

Developer

  AMD

  GeForce GTX 960

Model

  Radeon R9 290X

  40.2

benchmarks
Total performance

  Maxwell(GM206)

Architecture

  GCN(Hawaii XT)

  28

Process, nm

  28

Release year

  2013

  1024

Shaders

  1127

Core frequency

  1000

  1178

Core frequency (turbo mode)

  -

  GDDR5

Memory type

  GDDR5

  3500

Memory frequency

  5000

  128

Memory bus

  512

  12

DirectX

  12 (FL 12_0)

  4.4

OpenGL

  4.3

benchmarks
3DMark06

  32271.0

  6783.5

benchmarks
Cinebench R10

• 10DE 1401

System device ids

• 1002 67B0

• MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693)
• Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P
• Asus M5A97 R2.0
• MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917)
• Asus Z170 PRO GAMING
• Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 6.0
• MSI Z97 PC Mate(MS-7850)

Popular builds

• Asus CROSSHAIR V FORMULA-Z
• Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0
• Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3
• Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0
• MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693)
• Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO
• MSI Z97 GAMING 5 (MS-7917)