AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

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AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800 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 RX 6800 XT 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 87% (2250MHz vs 1201MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6800 XT +743%

20.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.46 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6800 XT

VS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Nov 2015

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1825 MHz

Base Clock

1176 MHz

2250 MHz

Boost Clock

1201 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

72

Compute Units

-

4608

Shading Units

1024

288

TMUs

64

128

ROPs

32

-

72

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

128 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

288.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.43 GPixel/s

648.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.86 GTexel/s

41.47 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

20.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.460 TFLOPS

1296 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.86 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

Unknown

700 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

No outputs

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

GM206

Navi 21 XT (215-121000177)

GPU Variant

GTX 960 OEM

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

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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