NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon R5 M330

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs AMD Radeon R5 M330 4 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

667% significantly better overall score

185 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points

288% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

5430 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380 points

349% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

4983 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points

238% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

5844 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points

355% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

4573 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz

18% slightly higher core clock speed

955 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

14% slightly higher boost clock speed

1030 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.2 GB/s

679% significantly higher memory bandwidth

14.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

18 W

566% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

37.7 Gigapixels/s

357% significantly higher pixel rate

8.24 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s

265% significantly higher texture rate

20.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

220% significantly more shading units

320

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

220% 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

443rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R5 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January

2015 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.3

GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R5 M330 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 960 graphics card is better than the Radeon R5 M330 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 960 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 960 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon R5 M330 has a significantly lower TDP at 18 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 960 at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 960 is better than the Radeon R5 M330.