NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited Edition 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 295W)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited Edition 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 31% (1546MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited Edition +424%

12.66 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

VS

Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited Edition

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

1247 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1546 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

64

-

1024

Shading Units

4096

64

TMUs

256

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

98.94 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

395.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

25.33 TFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.66 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

791.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

295W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 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 XT (215-0894200)

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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