AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 5500 XT and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 46% (1757MHz vs 1201MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro 5500 XT +119%

5.398 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.46 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 5500 XT

VS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2020

Release Date

Nov 2015

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1187 MHz

Base Clock

1176 MHz

1757 MHz

Boost Clock

1201 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

1024

96

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

56.22 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.43 GPixel/s

168.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.86 GTexel/s

10.80 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.398 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.460 TFLOPS

337.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.86 GFLOPS

Board Design

125W

TDP

Unknown

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

GM206

Navi 14 PRO XL

GPU Variant

GTX 960 OEM

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.5

Shader Model

6.7

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