NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon Pro W6900X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

AMD Radeon Pro W6900X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro W6900X 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 300W)

AMD Radeon Pro W6900X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 83% (2150MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (32GB vs 2GB)

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

4096 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W6900X +812%

22.02 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 960

189

Radeon Pro W6900X +1060%

2193

GeForce GTX 960

VS

Radeon Pro W6900X

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Aug 2021

GeForce 900

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1825 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

2150 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

80

-

1024

Shading Units

5120

64

TMUs

320

32

ROPs

128

-

RT Cores

80

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

1024 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

L3 Cache

128 MB

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

275.2 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

688.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

44.03 TFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

22.02 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1376 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

300W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 4x Thunderbolt

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Navi 21

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 21 Pro-XTA

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

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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