NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 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 335W)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 96% (2310MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

4096 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT +880%

23.65 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 960

2284

Radeon RX 6950 XT +839%

21448

Blender

GeForce GTX 960

192

Radeon RX 6950 XT +1404%

2889

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 960

10

Radeon RX 6950 XT +760%

86

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 960

25

Radeon RX 6950 XT +524%

156

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 960

35

Radeon RX 6950 XT +511%

214

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 960

70

Radeon RX 6950 XT +170%

189

GeForce GTX 960

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Radeon RX 6950 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 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1860 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

2310 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

80

1024

Shading Units

5120

64

TMUs

320

32

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

80

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

1024 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

295.7 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

739.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

47.31 TFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.65 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1478 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Navi 21

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

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

Board Design

120W

TDP

335W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 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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