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GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

The GeForce GTX 960 has a GPU clock speed of 1127 MHz, and the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory is set to run at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 1024 Stream Processors, 64 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 560, which has a clock frequency of 1175 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It is made up of 1024 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 560 80 Watts
GeForce GTX 960 120 Watts
Difference: 40 Watts (50%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 560 should be a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 960 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 560 114688 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960 112000 MB/sec
Difference: 2688 (2%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 will be a bit (more or less 4%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

Radeon RX 560 75200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960 72128 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 3072 (4%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 is quite a bit (more or less 92%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 560, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960 36064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 560 18800 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 17264 (92%)

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 560
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year January 2015 May 2017
Code Name GM206 Baffin
Memory 2048 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 1127 MHz 1175 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 120 watts 80 watts
Bandwidth 112000 MB/sec 114688 MB/sec
Texel Rate 72128 Mtexels/sec 75200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 36064 Mpixels/sec 18800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1024 1024
Texture Mapping Units 64 64
Render Output Units 32 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 14 nm
Transistors 2940 million 3000 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen 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 texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called 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 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 560

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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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