NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

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

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

GPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare graphics cards

AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 265.00

$ 394.00 significantly less expensive

$ 659.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1419 points

11265 points

693% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

231 FPS

201 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

167 FPS

145 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS

204 FPS

184 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

97 FPS

80 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

Free GPU Benchmark

Want to compare your graphics card against the GeForce GTX 960 and the Radeon RX 6800 XT? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download GPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2293 points

19436 points

747% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

167.72 points

2414.65 points

1339% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

8773 points

150488 points

1615% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points

157812 points

648% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380 points

100571 points

349% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

8773 points

200077 points

2180% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points

154801 points

681% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points

157877 points

657% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz

2015 MHz

78% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

2250 MHz

91% 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

150% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

37.7 Gigapixels/s

288 Gigapixels/s

663% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s

648 Gigatexels/s

759% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.41 TFLOPS

20.74 TFLOPS

759% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

4608

350% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

288

350% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 586

33rd 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 XT comparison

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

The Radeon RX 6800 XT 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 XT also has a significantly 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 6800 XT has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 960 has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6800 XT at 300 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 Radeon RX 6800 XT over the GeForce GTX 960.