NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP, 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

1836 points

29% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

37 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

27 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS

40 FPS

20 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

3877 points

69% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points

40609 points

92% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380 points

37797 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points

34371 points

73% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points

45743 points

119% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz

1168 MHz

3% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

1284 MHz

8% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

224 GB/s

99% 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

41.09 Gigapixels/s

8% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s

164.4 Gigatexels/s

118% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.41 TFLOPS

5.26 TFLOPS

117% 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

218th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January

2018 October

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 580 2048SP comparison

For gaming, the Radeon RX 580 2048SP graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 960 in our tests.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 580 2048SP 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. In addition, the Radeon RX 580 2048SP also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 960 has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon RX 580 2048SP 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 580 2048SP over the GeForce GTX 960.