NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 6700 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 230W)

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 119% (2581MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6700 XT +447%

13.21 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 960

2284

Radeon RX 6700 XT +459%

12772

Blender

GeForce GTX 960

192

Radeon RX 6700 XT +755%

1642

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 960

10

Radeon RX 6700 XT +420%

52

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 960

25

Radeon RX 6700 XT +284%

96

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 960

35

Radeon RX 6700 XT +305%

142

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 960

70

Radeon RX 6700 XT +137%

166

GeForce GTX 960

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Radeon RX 6700 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Mar 2021

GeForce 900

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

2321 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

2581 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

40

1024

Shading Units

2560

64

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

40

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

1024 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.2 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

413.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

26.43 TFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.21 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

825.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Navi 22

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 22 XT (215-127000006)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

17.2 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

335 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

230W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 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 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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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