NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon R7 450

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs AMD Radeon R7 450 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon R7 450

Price

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$ 265.00

$ 149.99

$ 115.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1419 points

377% significantly better overall score

297 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

8 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

4 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

6 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

2 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10702 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380 points

128% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

9779 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

10058 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points

145% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

8478 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz

7% slightly higher core clock speed

1050 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

55% significantly higher memory bandwidth

72 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

65 W

84% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

37.7 Gigapixels/s

154% significantly higher pixel rate

14.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s

154% significantly higher texture rate

29.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

100% significantly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 586

377th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January

2016 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

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 R7 450 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 960 GPU is faster than the Radeon R7 450 in gaming.

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.

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. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon R7 450 has a significantly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 960 at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 960 over the Radeon R7 450.