AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 480 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 480

• Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 5 month(s) later
• Around 7% higher boost clock speed: 1266 MHz vs 1178 MHz
• 2.5x more texture fill rate: 182.3 GTexel / s vs 72 billion / sec
• 2.3x more pipelines: 2304 vs 1024
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
• 2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
• 1000x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s
• Around 40% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8578 vs 6111
• Around 15% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 774 vs 673
• 2.1x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 39538 vs 18734
• Around 41% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 103.851 vs 73.733
• Around 55% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 7.593 vs 4.888
• Around 92% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 67.879 vs 35.338
• 3x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 597.772 vs 200.825
• Around 55% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 11172 vs 7218
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3719 vs 3691
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3361 vs 3335
• Around 55% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 11172 vs 7218
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3719 vs 3691
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3361 vs 3335
• 6x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 966 vs 162

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

• Around 1% higher core clock speed: 1127 MHz vs 1120 MHz
• 416x better floating-point performance: 2,413 gflops vs 5.8 TFLOPs
• Around 25% lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 150 Watt
• Around 3% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 792.44 vs 769.541

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 480
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	8578 6111
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	774 673
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	39538 18734
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	103.851 73.733
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	769.541 792.44
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	7.593 4.888
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	67.879 35.338
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	597.772 200.825
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	11172 7218
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3719 3691
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3361 3335
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	11172 7218
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3719 3691
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3361 3335
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	GPU 1 GPU 2	966 162

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