NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon HD 7900

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7900, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1419 points
20% slightly better overall score
1178 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

29 FPS
2 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
27 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS
4 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
17 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS
23 FPS
3 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS
8 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
9 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points
32996 points
56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380 points
33694 points
50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points
31425 points
58% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points
32351 points
55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 586
252nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
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DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
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GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon HD 7900 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 960 graphics card is better than the Radeon HD 7900 in our tests.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 960 over the Radeon HD 7900.

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