NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 5600 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 5600 XT 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 32% (1560MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5600 XT +197%

7.188 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 960

2283

Radeon RX 5600 XT +237%

7697

Blender

GeForce GTX 960

189

Radeon RX 5600 XT +337%

826

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 960

10

Radeon RX 5600 XT +210%

31

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 960

25

Radeon RX 5600 XT +156%

64

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 960

35

Radeon RX 5600 XT +182%

99

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 960

70

Radeon RX 5600 XT +142%

170

GeForce GTX 960

VS

Radeon RX 5600 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Jan 2020

GeForce 900

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1130 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1560 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/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

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

99.84 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

224.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

14.38 TFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.188 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

449.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Navi 10

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XLE (215-0917338)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

251 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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