NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon RX 590

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 590 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 590

Price

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$ 265.00

$ 248.79

$ 16.21 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1419 points

2466 points

73% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

52 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

38 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS

52 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

20 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2293 points

4729 points

106% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

8773 points

49268 points

461% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points

52086 points

147% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380 points

48483 points

116% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

8773 points

59450 points

577% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points

45746 points

131% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points

55240 points

165% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz

1545 MHz

37% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

1545 MHz

31% 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

256 GB/s

128% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

45% significantly lower TDP

175 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

37.7 Gigapixels/s

49.54 Gigapixels/s

31% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s

222.48 Gigatexels/s

195% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.41 TFLOPS

7.12 TFLOPS

195% 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

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 586

179th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January

2018 November

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 590 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 590 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 960 in gaming.

The Radeon RX 590 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 590 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 590 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 960 has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon RX 590 at 175 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 590 is better than the GeForce GTX 960.