AMD Radeon RX 560 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

VS

AMD Radeon RX 560

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1275MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560 +8%

2.611 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 560

1780

GeForce GTX 960 +28%

2283

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 560

3

GeForce GTX 960 +233%

10

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 560

12

GeForce GTX 960 +108%

25

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 560

21

GeForce GTX 960 +66%

35

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 560 +34%

94

GeForce GTX 960

70

Radeon RX 560

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jan 2015

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1175 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1275 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

1024

64

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

20.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

81.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

2.611 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.611 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

163.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

120W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

GM206

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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