NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Price

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$ 265.00

$ 598.63 significantly less expensive

$ 863.63

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1419 points

24895 points

1654% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

529 FPS

499 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

351 FPS

329 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS

477 FPS

458 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

207 FPS

190 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2293 points

6837 points

198% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

167.72 points

4050.95 points

2315% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points

212685 points

974% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points

238996 points

1046% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz

1855 MHz

64% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

2500 MHz

112% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

24 GiB

499% 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

960 GB/s

755% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

195% significantly lower TDP

355 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

37.7 Gigapixels/s

480 Gigapixels/s

1173% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s

960 Gigatexels/s

1173% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.41 TFLOPS

61.42 TFLOPS

2445% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

6144

499% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

384

499% 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

3rd 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 XTX benchmarks

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

The Radeon RX 7900 XTX 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 7900 XTX also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX has significantly more memory with 24 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 7900 XTX at 355 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 7900 XTX is better than the GeForce GTX 960.