NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon RX 560X

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 560X 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

194% significantly better overall score

482 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

8 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

11 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

4 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2293 points

24% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1836 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points

23094 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

19900 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points

20500 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

20126 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz

1175 MHz

4% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

1275 MHz

8% 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

84% significantly higher pixel rate

20.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s

81.6 Gigatexels/s

8% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.41 TFLOPS

2.61 TFLOPS

8% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

Identical

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

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

331st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500X Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January

2018 March

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

4.6

GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon RX 560X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 960 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 560X in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 560X 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 Radeon RX 560X also 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that 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 560X 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 560X.