AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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, 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • Around 10% higher boost clock speed: 1190 MHz vs 1085 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • 2.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5300 vs 2411
  • 2.1x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 26818 vs 12495
  • Around 61% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 8311 vs 5157
  • Around 61% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 8311 vs 5157
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 14 November 2018 vs 13 March 2015
Boost clock speed 1190 MHz vs 1085 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 5300 vs 2411
Geekbench - OpenCL 26818 vs 12495
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 8311 vs 5157
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 8311 vs 5157

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A

  • 3.4x more core clock speed: 1029 MHz vs 300 MHz
  • Around 33% lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 100 Watt
  • 2.1x more memory clock speed: 5012 MHz vs 2400 MHz
  • Around 13% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 631 vs 558
  • 3.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 5834 vs 1842
  • 4.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 7859 vs 1663
  • 3.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 5834 vs 1842
  • 4.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 7859 vs 1663
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1029 MHz vs 300 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt vs 100 Watt
Memory clock speed 5012 MHz vs 2400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 631 vs 558
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 5834 vs 1842
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 7859 vs 1663
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 5834 vs 1842
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 7859 vs 1663

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
5300
2411
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
558
631
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
26818
12495
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8311
5157
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1842
5834
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1663
7859
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8311
5157
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1842
5834
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1663
7859
Name AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A
PassMark - G3D Mark 5300 2411
PassMark - G2D Mark 558 631
Geekbench - OpenCL 26818 12495
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 8311 5157
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1842 5834
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1663 7859
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 8311 5157
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1842 5834
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1663 7859
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 49.772
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 757.295
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.67
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 49.875
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 179.567

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.0 Maxwell
Code name Vega 12 GM107
Launch date 14 November 2018 13 March 2015
Place in performance rating 472 474
Type Workstation Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1190 MHz 1085 MHz
Core clock speed 300 MHz 1029 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt 75 Watt
Floating-point performance 1,389 gflops
Pipelines 640
Texture fill rate 43.4 GTexel / s
Transistor count 1,870 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 MXM-B (3.0)
Length 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6

Memory

Memory clock speed 2400 MHz 5012 MHz
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 80.19 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory type GDDR5