NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon RX 5600M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5600M 6 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

3199 points

125% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

66 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

50 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS

56 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

29 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2293 points

6119 points

166% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

167.72 points

673.32 points

301% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points

51426 points

144% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380 points

40406 points

80% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points

55712 points

181% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points

51663 points

147% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz

8% slightly higher core clock speed

1035 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

1265 MHz

7% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

6 GiB

49% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.2 GB/s

288 GB/s

156% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

25% slightly lower TDP

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

37.7 Gigapixels/s

80.96 Gigapixels/s

114% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s

182.16 Gigatexels/s

141% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.41 TFLOPS

5.83 TFLOPS

141% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

2304

125% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

125% 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

147th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January

2020 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon RX 5600M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 5600M GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 960 in gaming.

In our comparison, 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. Despite this, the Radeon RX 5600M 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 5600M has significantly more memory with 6 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, the GeForce GTX 960 has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5600M at 150 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 5600M over the GeForce GTX 960.