AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

VS

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 64 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 Vega 64 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 31% (1546MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 295W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 64 +424%

12.66 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX Vega 64 +229%

7522

GeForce GTX 960

2283

Blender

Radeon RX Vega 64 +249%

660

GeForce GTX 960

189

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX Vega 64 +210%

31

GeForce GTX 960

10

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX Vega 64 +148%

62

GeForce GTX 960

25

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX Vega 64 +162%

92

GeForce GTX 960

35

Radeon RX Vega 64

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Jan 2015

Vega

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1247 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1546 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

945 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

128bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

-

4096

Shading Units

1024

256

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

98.94 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

395.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

25.33 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.66 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

791.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Board Design

295W

TDP

120W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

GM206

Vega 10 XT (215-0894200)

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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