NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 11

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 11, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1419 points

91% significantly better overall score

742 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

15 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

13 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

15 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

7 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

167.72 points

88% significantly higher Blender score

88.84 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

14198 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

14883 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

8773 points

17490 points

99% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

14689 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

13478 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz

275% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

1400 MHz

18% slightly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

15 W

700% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

37.7 Gigapixels/s

236% significantly higher pixel rate

11.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s

22% slightly higher texture rate

61.6 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.41 TFLOPS

22% slightly better floating point performance

1.97 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

45% significantly more shading units

704

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

45% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 586

285th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January

2019 July

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

4.6

GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon RX Vega 11 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 960 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX Vega 11 in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 960 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. Despite this, the Radeon RX Vega 11 has a slightly 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.

In addition, the Radeon RX Vega 11 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 960 at 120 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 960 is better than the Radeon RX Vega 11.