AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT 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 6500 XT 's Advantages

Released 7 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 139% (2815MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (143.9GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

Lower TDP (107W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6500 XT +138%

5.765 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6500 XT +115%

4918

GeForce GTX 960

2284

Blender

Radeon RX 6500 XT +205%

587

GeForce GTX 960

192

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT +50%

15

GeForce GTX 960

10

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT +24%

31

GeForce GTX 960

25

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT +34%

47

GeForce GTX 960

35

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT +37%

96

GeForce GTX 960

70

Radeon RX 6500 XT

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GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jan 2015

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

2815 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2248 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

143.9GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

1024

64

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

90.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

180.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

11.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.765 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

360.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

GM206

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

107W

TDP

120W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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