NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 6650 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 176W)

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 124% (2635MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (280.3GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6650 XT +347%

10.79 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 960

2283

Radeon RX 6650 XT +333%

9891

Blender

GeForce GTX 960

189

Radeon RX 6650 XT +587%

1299

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 960

10

Radeon RX 6650 XT +280%

38

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 960

25

Radeon RX 6650 XT +208%

77

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 960

35

Radeon RX 6650 XT +240%

119

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 960

70

Radeon RX 6650 XT +114%

150

GeForce GTX 960

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Radeon RX 6650 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

May 2022

GeForce 900

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

2055 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

2635 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2190 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

280.3GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

1024

Shading Units

2048

64

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

64

-

RT Cores

32

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

L3 Cache

32 MB

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

168.6 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

337.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

21.59 TFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.79 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

674.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

176W

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 23

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 23 KXT (215-130000136)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

11.06 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

237 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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