AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 896SP and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (45W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 0% (1178MHz vs 1175MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560 896SP

2.106 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 +14%

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 896SP

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

Jan 2015

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1090 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1175 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

1024

56

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

65.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

2.106 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.106 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

131.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

GM206

Polaris 21 XL

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

45W

TDP

120W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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