AMD Radeon RX 570 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

Compare AMD Radeon RX 570 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 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

1929 points

225% significantly better overall score

593 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

40 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

28 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

40 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

15 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

9 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3841 points

211% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1232 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

332.38 points

138% significantly higher Blender score

139.59 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

41087 points

235% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

12257 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

42870 points

305% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10582 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

41113 points

255% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11578 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47019 points

393% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9535 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1168 MHz

6% slightly higher core clock speed

1097 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1244 MHz

5% slightly higher boost clock speed

1176 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s

179% significantly higher memory bandwidth

80.19 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

65 W

130% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

39.81 Gigapixels/s

111% significantly higher pixel rate

18.82 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

159.2 Gigatexels/s

238% significantly higher texture rate

47.04 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.10 TFLOPS

238% significantly better floating point performance

1.50 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

220% significantly more shading units

640

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

220% 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

214th of 586

310th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

2015 March

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

4.6

4.5

Radeon RX 570 vs GeForce GTX 960M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 570 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 960M in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 570 has a slightly 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 570 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 570 has significantly more memory with 8 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 570 at 150 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 Radeon RX 570 over the GeForce GTX 960M.