NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 57% (1845MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

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

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (110W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 OEM +115%

5.196 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

VS

Radeon RX 5500 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Oct 2019

GeForce 900

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1845 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

22

-

1024

Shading Units

1408

64

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.04 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

162.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

10.39 TFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.196 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

324.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

110W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Navi 14

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 14 XT (215-0932220)

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

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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