NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon Pro VII

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

AMD Radeon Pro VII

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro VII 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 250W)

AMD Radeon Pro VII 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (1700MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1020GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro VII +441%

13.06 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 960

189

Radeon Pro VII +1668%

3343

GeForce GTX 960

VS

Radeon Pro VII

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

May 2020

GeForce 900

Generation

Radeon Pro Vega

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1400 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1700 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

1020GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

60

-

1024

Shading Units

3840

64

TMUs

240

32

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

108.8 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

408.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

26.11 TFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.06 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

6.528 TFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Vega 20

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

Vega 20 GLXT WS (215-0914026)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 5.1

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

13.23 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

331 mm²

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

6.7

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