NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon Vega 11

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs AMD Radeon 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

115% significantly better overall score

658 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

14 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

13 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

6 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

167.72 points

137% significantly higher Blender score

70.66 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

12376 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380 points

80% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

12402 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

8773 points

17392 points

98% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

13344 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16804 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

297th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January

2019 September

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 Vega 11 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 960 beats the Radeon Vega 11 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, 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 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 Vega 11 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 960 at 120 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 960 is faster than the Radeon Vega 11.