AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

Price

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$ 488.33

$ 265.00

$ 223.33 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5396 points

280% significantly better overall score

1419 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

111 FPS

82 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

29 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

82 FPS

60 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

22 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

97 FPS

77 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

20 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

17 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9586 points

318% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2293 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

979.30 points

483% significantly higher Blender score

167.72 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

68311 points

678% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

8773 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

71091 points

237% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

21072 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56806 points

153% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

22380 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

94209 points

973% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

8773 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

78331 points

295% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

19796 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

87728 points

320% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

20845 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1605 MHz

42% slightly higher core clock speed

1127 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1905 MHz

61% significantly higher boost clock speed

1178 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

448 GB/s

299% significantly higher memory bandwidth

112.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

225 W

120 W

87% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

121.9 Gigapixels/s

223% significantly higher pixel rate

37.7 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

304.8 Gigatexels/s

304% significantly higher texture rate

75.39 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

9.75 TFLOPS

304% significantly better floating point performance

2.41 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

150% significantly more shading units

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

150% 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

93rd of 586

239th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2015 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

Radeon RX 5700 XT vs GeForce GTX 960 benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 5700 XT graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 960 in our tests.

The Radeon RX 5700 XT has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 5700 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 5700 XT has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 960 has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5700 XT at 225 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 5700 XT is better than the GeForce GTX 960.