NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon RX 6800

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6800 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 6800

Price

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$ 265.00

$ 254.00 significantly less expensive

$ 519.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1419 points

9568 points

574% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

196 FPS

166 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

143 FPS

122 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS

173 FPS

153 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

83 FPS

66 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2293 points

16155 points

604% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

167.72 points

1896.07 points

1030% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

8773 points

129800 points

1379% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points

130322 points

518% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380 points

93163 points

316% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

8773 points

176154 points

1907% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points

130005 points

556% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points

133046 points

538% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz

1815 MHz

61% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

2105 MHz

78% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

16 GiB

300% 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

512 GB/s

356% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

108% significantly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

37.7 Gigapixels/s

202.1 Gigapixels/s

436% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s

505.2 Gigatexels/s

570% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.41 TFLOPS

16.17 TFLOPS

570% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

3840

274% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

240

274% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 586

41st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January

2020 November

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 6800 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6800 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 960 in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6800 has a significantly 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 6800 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 6800 has significantly more memory with 16 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 significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6800 at 250 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 6800 over the GeForce GTX 960.