NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon RX 460

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 460 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

73% significantly better overall score

816 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

18 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

12 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

17 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

6 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2293 points

29% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1768 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

8773 points

17920 points

104% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points

21824 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

20340 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

8773 points

22320 points

154% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

18277 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points

24052 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz

3% slightly higher core clock speed

1090 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

1200 MHz

1% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.2 GB/s

0.18% slightly higher memory bandwidth

112 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

75 W

60% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

37.7 Gigapixels/s

96% significantly higher pixel rate

19.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s

12% slightly higher texture rate

67.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.41 TFLOPS

12% slightly better floating point performance

2.15 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

14% slightly more shading units

896

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

14% slightly 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

276th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January

2016 August

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

GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon RX 460 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 960 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 460 in gaming.

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. Despite this, the Radeon RX 460 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 460 has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 960 at 120 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 960 over the Radeon RX 460.