NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT 20 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

Price

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$ 265.00

$ 414.99 significantly less expensive

$ 679.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1419 points

19220 points

1254% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

393 FPS

364 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

273 FPS

252 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS

362 FPS

342 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

158 FPS

141 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2293 points

5616 points

144% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

167.72 points

3540.90 points

2011% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points

187759 points

848% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points

213258 points

923% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz

1800 MHz

59% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

2400 MHz

103% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

20 GiB

400% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

384 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.2 GB/s

800 GB/s

613% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

162% significantly lower TDP

315 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

37.7 Gigapixels/s

460 Gigapixels/s

1120% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s

810 Gigatexels/s

974% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.41 TFLOPS

54.07 TFLOPS

2140% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

12288

1100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

768

1100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192

499% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 586

10th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January

2022 December

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 7900 XT specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 7900 XT beats the GeForce GTX 960 in gaming performance.

The Radeon RX 7900 XT has a significantly 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 7900 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 7900 XT has significantly more memory with 20 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 7900 XT at 315 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 7900 XT over the GeForce GTX 960.