NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon RX 470

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 470 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 470

Price

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$ 265.00

$ 4173.00 significantly less expensive

$ 4438.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1419 points

1827 points

28% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

38 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

27 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS

38 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2293 points

3668 points

59% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

8773 points

38292 points

336% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points

39085 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380 points

41542 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

8773 points

41978 points

378% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points

33559 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points

42112 points

102% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz

21% slightly higher core clock speed

926 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

1206 MHz

2% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.2 GB/s

211 GB/s

88% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

Identical

120 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

37.7 Gigapixels/s

38.59 Gigapixels/s

2% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s

154.4 Gigatexels/s

104% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.41 TFLOPS

4.94 TFLOPS

104% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

2048

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 586

219th 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 470 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 470 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 960 in gaming.

In our comparison, 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 470 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, the Radeon RX 470 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, both the GeForce GTX 960 and the Radeon RX 470 have an identical TDP. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 470 is faster than the GeForce GTX 960.