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GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

Intro

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

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6700 XT, which features a clock frequency of 2321 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 2000 MHz. It also makes use of a 192-bit memory bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It features 2560 SPUs, 160 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960 120 Watts
Radeon RX 6700 XT 230 Watts
Difference: 110 Watts (92%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6700 XT, in theory, should be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 960 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT 393216 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960 112000 MB/sec
Difference: 281216 (251%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT will be much (about 415%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT 371360 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960 72128 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 299232 (415%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT is a lot (approximately 312%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 960, and able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT 148544 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960 36064 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 112480 (312%)

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 6700 XT
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year January 2015 March 2021
Code Name GM206 Navi 22
Memory 2048 MB (Unknown) MB
Core Speed 1127 MHz 2321 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 4000 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 120 watts 230 watts
Bandwidth 112000 MB/sec 393216 MB/sec
Texel Rate 72128 Mtexels/sec 371360 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 36064 Mpixels/sec 148544 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1024 2560
Texture Mapping Units 64 160
Render Output Units 32 64
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Bus Width 128-bit 192-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 7 nm
Transistors 2940 million 17200 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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, 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 can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 960

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Radeon RX 6700 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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