AMD Radeon Vega 8 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

Compare AMD Radeon Vega 8 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

593 points

Identical

593 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

11 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

12 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

5 FPS

9 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1426 points

15% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1232 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

88.64 points

139.59 points

57% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

8763 points

12257 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8956 points

10582 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9296 points

11578 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

11397 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9535 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

1097 MHz

265% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2000 MHz

70% significantly higher boost clock speed

1176 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

45 W

44% significantly lower TDP

65 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

16 Gigapixels/s

18.82 Gigapixels/s

17% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

64 Gigatexels/s

36% slightly higher texture rate

47.04 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.05 TFLOPS

36% slightly better floating point performance

1.50 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

640

25% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

25% slightly 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

309th of 586

310th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

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 Vega 8 vs GeForce GTX 960M comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 960M beats the Radeon Vega 8 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 960M has a significantly 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. Despite this, the Radeon Vega 8 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 8 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 960M is better than the Radeon Vega 8.