NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon RX 560 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 AMD Radeon RX 560 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 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 150W)

AMD Radeon RX 560 XT 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1226MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

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

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 XT +82%

4.394 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

VS

Radeon RX 560 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Mar 2019

GeForce 900

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1074 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1226 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

1024

Shading Units

1792

64

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.23 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

137.3 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

4.394 TFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.394 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

274.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 LE1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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