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GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

The GeForce GTX 960 has a GPU core clock speed of 1127 MHz, and the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM runs at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1024 SPUs, 64 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5600, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1375 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a frequency of 1500 MHz on this particular card. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960 120 Watts
Radeon RX 5600 150 Watts
Difference: 30 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 5600 is 163% quicker than the GeForce GTX 960 in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 294912 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960 112000 MB/sec
Difference: 182912 (163%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 should be quite a bit (more or less 144%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 176000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960 72128 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 103872 (144%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 is a lot (more or less 144%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 960, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960 36064 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 51936 (144%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 960 Radeon RX 5600
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year January 2015 January 2020
Code Name GM206 Navi 10 XE
Memory 2048 MB 6144 MB
Core Speed 1127 MHz 1375 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 3000 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 120 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 112000 MB/sec 294912 MB/sec
Texel Rate 72128 Mtexels/sec 176000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 36064 Mpixels/sec 88000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1024 2048
Texture Mapping Units 64 128
Render Output Units 32 64
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Bus Width 128-bit 192-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 7 nm
Transistors 2940 million 10300 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, 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 maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 960

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Radeon RX 5600

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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