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GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon RX 6800 XT

Intro

The GeForce GTX 960 features clock speeds of 1127 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6800 XT, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1825 MHz, and 16384 MB of GDDR6 memory set to run at 2000 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 4608 SPUs, 288 TAUs, and 128 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960 120 Watts
Radeon RX 6800 XT 300 Watts
Difference: 180 Watts (150%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 6800 XT should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 960 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800 XT 524288 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960 112000 MB/sec
Difference: 412288 (368%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6800 XT will be a lot (more or less 629%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800 XT 525600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960 72128 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 453472 (629%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6800 XT is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800 XT 233600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960 36064 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 197536 (548%)

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 6800 XT
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year January 2015 November 2020
Code Name GM206 Navi 21
Memory 2048 MB 16384 MB
Core Speed 1127 MHz 1825 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 4000 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 120 watts 300 watts
Bandwidth 112000 MB/sec 524288 MB/sec
Texel Rate 72128 Mtexels/sec 525600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 36064 Mpixels/sec 233600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1024 4608
Texture Mapping Units 64 288
Render Output Units 32 128
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 7 nm
Transistors 2940 million 26800 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 960

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Radeon RX 6800 XT

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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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