NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs AMD Radeon Vega 6

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB vs AMD Radeon Vega 6, 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

88% significantly better overall score

315 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

8 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

6 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

6 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

3 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1232 points

49% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

823 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12257 points

75% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

7003 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10582 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

6797 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11578 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

7199 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9535 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

6854 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1097 MHz

265% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1176 MHz

1700 MHz

44% significantly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W

45 W

44% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.82 Gigapixels/s

38% slightly higher pixel rate

13.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

47.04 Gigatexels/s

15% slightly higher texture rate

40.8 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

66% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

66% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

310th of 586

372nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 March

2021 April

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 960M vs Radeon Vega 6 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 960M GPU is faster than the Radeon Vega 6 in gaming.

The GeForce GTX 960M 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 6 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.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 6 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 960M at 65 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 960M over the Radeon Vega 6.