Radeon RX 6800 XT vs GeForce GTX 960
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800 XT and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 6800 XT 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 91% (2250MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)
3584 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages
Lower TDP (120W vs 300W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+759%
20740
GeForce GTX 960
2413
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+740%
19329
GeForce GTX 960
2300
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+808%
9315
GeForce GTX 960
1025
Blender
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+1356%
2752
GeForce GTX 960
189
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+620%
72
GeForce GTX 960
10
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+436%
134
GeForce GTX 960
25
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+437%
188
GeForce GTX 960
35
GTA 5 1080p
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+154%
178
GeForce GTX 960
70
Graphics Card
Oct 2020
Release Date
Jan 2015
Navi II
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1825 MHz
Base Clock
1127 MHz
2250 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
512.0GB/s
Bandwidth
112.2GB/s
Render Config
72
Compute Units
-
4608
Shading Units
1024
288
TMUs
64
128
ROPs
32
72
RT Cores
-
128 KB per Array
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
128 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
288.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
37.70 GPixel/s
648.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
75.39 GTexel/s
41.47 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
20.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.413 TFLOPS
1296 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
75.39 GFLOPS
Board Design
300W
TDP
120W
700 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 21
GPU Name
GM206
Navi 21 XT
(215-121000177)
GPU Variant
GM206-300-A1
RDNA 2.0
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
28 nm
26.8 billion
Transistors
2.94 billion
520 mm²
Die Size
228 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
5.2
6.5
Shader Model
6.4