NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon HD 8790M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 8790M 2 GB, 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

2984% significantly better overall score

46 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

2 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

0 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

1 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

0 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points

200% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

7019 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380 points

194% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

7602 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points

317% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

4741 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points

202% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

6895 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz

32% slightly higher core clock speed

850 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

38% slightly higher boost clock speed

850 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

100% significantly more memory

2 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.2 GB/s

75% significantly higher memory bandwidth

64 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

37.7 Gigapixels/s

423% significantly higher pixel rate

7.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s

249% significantly higher texture rate

21.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

166% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

166% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 586

548th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon HD 8000M Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.4

GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon HD 8790M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 960 GPU is faster than the Radeon HD 8790M in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 960 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 960 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 960 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 960 over the Radeon HD 8790M.