AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s).

AMD Radeon RX Vega 2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 2

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 1 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm

Launch date	7 Jan 2018 vs 26 November 2015
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Around 9% higher boost clock speed: 1201 MHz vs 1100 MHz
8x more pipelines: 1024 vs 128

Boost clock speed	1201 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Pipelines	1024 vs 128

Compare benchmarks

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

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 2	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM
PassMark - G2D Mark	244
PassMark - G3D Mark	506
Geekbench - OpenCL	3208
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		76.687
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		890.785
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		28.659

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 2	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Maxwell 2.0
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	GM206
Launch date	7 Jan 2018	26 November 2015
Place in performance rating	977	978
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1100 MHz	1201 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	128	1024
Transistor count	4500 million	2,940 million
Core clock speed		1176 MHz
Floating-point performance		2,460 gflops
Texture fill rate		76.86 GTexel / s
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL		4.6
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		4 GB
Memory bandwidth		112.2 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		7012 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5