AMD Radeon RX Vega 11 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 11 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM 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, 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 Vega 11

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 3% higher boost clock speed: 1240 MHz vs 1201 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • Around 91% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 54.784 vs 28.659
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 February 2018 vs 26 November 2015
Boost clock speed 1240 MHz vs 1201 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 54.784 vs 28.659

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

  • 3.9x more core clock speed: 1176 MHz vs 300 MHz
  • Around 40% higher texture fill rate: 76.86 GTexel / s vs 55 GTexel / s
  • Around 45% higher pipelines: 1024 vs 704
  • Around 40% better floating-point performance: 2,460 gflops vs 1,760 gflops
  • Around 87% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 76.687 vs 40.991
  • 2.4x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 890.785 vs 364.578
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1176 MHz vs 300 MHz
Texture fill rate 76.86 GTexel / s vs 55 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1024 vs 704
Floating-point performance 2,460 gflops vs 1,760 gflops
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 76.687 vs 40.991
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 890.785 vs 364.578

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 11
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
40.991
76.687
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
364.578
890.785
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
54.784
28.659
Name AMD Radeon RX Vega 11 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark 2106
PassMark - G2D Mark 518
Geekbench - OpenCL 14583
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 40.991 76.687
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 364.578 890.785
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.196
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 54.784 28.659
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 262.35
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 3455
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1857
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3107
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3455
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1857
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3107
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1201

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 11 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.0 Maxwell 2.0
Code name Raven GM206
Launch date 13 February 2018 26 November 2015
Place in performance rating 795 978
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1240 MHz 1201 MHz
Core clock speed 300 MHz 1176 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,760 gflops 2,460 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 704 1024
Texture fill rate 55 GTexel / s 76.86 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 Watt
Transistor count 4,940 million 2,940 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface IGP PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

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

Memory

Shared memory 0
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 112.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 7012 MHz
Memory type GDDR5