NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT 16 GB, 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

593 points

15475 points

2509% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS

326 FPS

312 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

216 FPS

205 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS

295 FPS

285 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS

127 FPS

118 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1232 points

4154 points

237% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.59 points

2429.25 points

1640% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11578 points

142590 points

1131% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9535 points

157875 points

1555% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1097 MHz

1800 MHz

64% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1176 MHz

2430 MHz

106% 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

80.19 GB/s

624 GB/s

678% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W

304% significantly lower TDP

263 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.82 Gigapixels/s

233 Gigapixels/s

1138% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

47.04 Gigatexels/s

583 Gigatexels/s

1139% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.50 TFLOPS

36.04 TFLOPS

2294% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

8192

1180% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

240

499% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

499% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

310th of 586

17th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 March

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 960M vs Radeon RX 7800 XT comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 7800 XT beats the GeForce GTX 960M in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 7800 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 7800 XT 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 7800 XT has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 960M has a significantly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the Radeon RX 7800 XT at 263 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 7800 XT over the GeForce GTX 960M.