NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon RX 6800

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

AMD Radeon RX 6800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800 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 250W)

AMD Radeon RX 6800 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 79% (2105MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6800 +570%

16.17 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 960

2283

Radeon RX 6800 +611%

16233

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 960

10

Radeon RX 6800 +550%

65

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 960

25

Radeon RX 6800 +368%

117

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 960

35

Radeon RX 6800 +380%

168

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 960

70

Radeon RX 6800 +142%

170

GeForce GTX 960

VS

Radeon RX 6800

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Oct 2020

GeForce 900

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1700 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

2105 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

60

-

1024

Shading Units

3840

64

TMUs

240

32

ROPs

96

-

RT Cores

60

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

1024 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

L3 Cache

128 MB

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

202.1 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

505.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

32.33 TFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.17 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1010 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Navi 21

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 21 XL (215-121000187)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

520 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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