AMD Radeon VII vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon VII 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 VII 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 49% (1750MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1020GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 295W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon VII +456%

13.44 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon VII +307%

9307

GeForce GTX 960

2284

Blender

Radeon VII +302%

772

GeForce GTX 960

192

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon VII +340%

44

GeForce GTX 960

10

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon VII +228%

82

GeForce GTX 960

25

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon VII +225%

114

GeForce GTX 960

35

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon VII +94%

136

GeForce GTX 960

70

Radeon VII

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GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Jan 2015

Vega II

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1400 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1750 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

4096bit

Memory Bus

128bit

1020GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

60

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

1024

240

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

112.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

420.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

26.88 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.44 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

3.360 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 20

GPU Name

GM206

Vega 20 XT

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

GCN 5.1

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

13.23 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

331 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

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 Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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