NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon Pro V520

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

AMD Radeon Pro V520

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro V520 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 225W)

AMD Radeon Pro V520 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 36% (1600MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro V520 +205%

7.373 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

VS

Radeon Pro V520

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Dec 2020

GeForce 900

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

-

1024

Shading Units

2304

64

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

230.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

14.75 TFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.373 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

460.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

225W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Navi 12

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 12

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

Unknown

228 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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