AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 7800 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 7800 XT 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 106% (2430MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (624.1GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 263W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 7800 XT +1446%

37.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 7800 XT +776%

20023

GeForce GTX 960

2284

Blender

Radeon RX 7800 XT +1328%

2742

GeForce GTX 960

192

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 7800 XT +740%

84

GeForce GTX 960

10

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 7800 XT +540%

160

GeForce GTX 960

25

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 7800 XT +608%

248

GeForce GTX 960

35

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 7800 XT +171%

190

GeForce GTX 960

70

Radeon RX 7800 XT

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GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Aug 2023

Release Date

Jan 2015

Navi III

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1295 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

2430 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2438 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

624.1GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

60

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

1024

240

TMUs

64

96

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

60

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

233.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

583.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

74.65 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

37.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

1166 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 32

GPU Name

GM206

Navi 32 XT (215-180000006)

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

RDNA 3.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

28.1 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

346 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

263W

TDP

120W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1a 3x DisplayPort 2.1

Outputs

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

2x 8-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

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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