AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 5% higher core clock speed: 1187 MHz vs 1127 MHz
Around 49% higher boost clock speed: 1757 MHz vs 1178 MHz
2343.1x more texture fill rate: 168.7 GTexel/s vs 72 billion / sec
Around 50% higher pipelines: 1536 vs 1024
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
250x more memory clock speed: 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective) vs 7.0 GB/s
2.3x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 42817 vs 18655

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 Aug 2020 vs 22 January 2015
Core clock speed	1187 MHz vs 1127 MHz
Boost clock speed	1757 MHz vs 1178 MHz
Texture fill rate	168.7 GTexel/s vs 72 billion / sec
Pipelines	1536 vs 1024
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective) vs 7.0 GB/s
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	42817 vs 18655

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

Around 4% lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 125 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt vs 125 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

42817

18655

Name	AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
Geekbench - OpenCL	42817	18655
PassMark - G3D Mark		6082
PassMark - G2D Mark		673
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		73.733
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		792.44
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		4.888
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		35.338
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		200.825
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		7218
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3691
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3335
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		7218
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3691
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3335
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		2284

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 1.0	Maxwell 2.0
Code name	Navi 14	GM206
Launch date	4 Aug 2020	22 January 2015
Place in performance rating	507	504
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$199
Price now		$229.99
Value for money (0-100)		34.63
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1757 MHz	1178 MHz
Compute units	24
Core clock speed	1187 MHz	1127 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	337.3 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	10.80 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.398 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1536	1024
Pixel fill rate	56.22 GPixel/s
Render output units	32
Texture fill rate	168.7 GTexel/s	72 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	125 Watt	120 Watt
Transistor count	6400 million	2,940 million
CUDA cores		1024
Floating-point performance		2,413 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2, 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Audio input for HDMI		Internal
HDCP
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)	350 Watt	400 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pins
Width	IGP
Bus support		PCI Express 3.0
Height		4.376" (11.1 cm)
Length		9.5" (24.1 cm)
SLI options		2x
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Shader Model	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	224.0 GB/s	112 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)	7.0 GB/s
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
CUDA
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost