NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 5500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 125W)

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 49% (1757MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 5500 XT +123%

5.398 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 960 +140%

192

Radeon Pro 5500 XT

80

GeForce GTX 960

VS

Radeon Pro 5500 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Aug 2020

GeForce 900

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1187 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1757 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

24

1024

Shading Units

1536

64

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.22 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

168.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.80 TFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.398 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

337.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Navi 14

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 14 PRO XL

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

125W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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