AMD Radeon RX 6800 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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AMD Radeon RX 6800 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800 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 6800 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 79% (2105MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6800 +570%

16.17 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6800 +613%

16287

GeForce GTX 960

2284

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6800 +550%

65

GeForce GTX 960

10

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6800 +368%

117

GeForce GTX 960

25

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6800 +380%

168

GeForce GTX 960

35

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6800 +142%

170

GeForce GTX 960

70

Radeon RX 6800

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Jan 2015

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1700 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

2105 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

60

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

1024

240

TMUs

64

96

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

60

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

202.1 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

505.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

32.33 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.17 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

1010 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

GM206

Navi 21 XL (215-121000187)

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

120W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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