GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1156 MHz. The HBM2 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1600 MHz on this particular model. It features 3584 SPUs along with 224 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon RX Vega 56		21011 points
GeForce GTX 960		7627 points
	Difference: 13384 (175%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
Radeon RX Vega 56		210 Watts
	Difference: 90 Watts (75%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX Vega 56 should theoretically be quite a bit better than the GeForce GTX 960 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 307430 (274%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 is a lot (about 259%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 186816 (259%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX Vega 56 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 37920 (105%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.