NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 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 210W)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 25% (1471MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56 +336%

10.54 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 960

2283

Radeon RX Vega 56 +201%

6878

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 960

10

Radeon RX Vega 56 +200%

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 960

25

Radeon RX Vega 56 +128%

57

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 960

35

Radeon RX Vega 56 +148%

87

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 960

70

Radeon RX Vega 56 +57%

110

GeForce GTX 960

VS

Radeon RX Vega 56

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Aug 2017

GeForce 900

Generation

Vega

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1156 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1471 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

409.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

56

-

1024

Shading Units

3584

64

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

94.14 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

329.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

21.09 TFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.54 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

659.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

210W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Vega 10

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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