AMD Radeon RX 580X VS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
amd
Brand8GB GDDR5
Memory2304
Cores256 GB/s
BandwidthRadeon RX 580X
nvidia
Brand2GB GDDR5
Memory1024
Cores112.2 GB/s
BandwidthGeForce GTX 960
AMD Radeon RX 580X
Radeon RX 580X
$ • Apr 2018
GeForce GTX 960
$199 • Jan 2015
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
Specs Comparison
| Specification | AMD Radeon RX 580X | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 |
|---|---|---|
| Memory Size | 8 GB | 2 GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| TDP | 185 W | 120 W |
| Core Clock | N/A | N/A |
| Boost Clock | 1340 MHz | 1178 MHz |
| Memory Bandwidth | 256 GB/s | 112.2 GB/s |
| Process Size | 14nm | 28nm |
| Architecture | GCN 4.0 | Maxwell 2.0 |
| Shading Units | 2304 | 1024 |
| RT Cores | N/A | N/A |
| TMUs | 144 | 64 |
| ROPs | 32 | 32 |
| Memory Bus | 256-bit | 128-bit |
| Memory Clock | 2000 MHz | 1753 MHz |
| Pixel Rate | 42.88 GPixel/s | 37.7 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 256 GTexel/s | 112.2 GTexel/s |
| FP32 Performance | 6.175 GFLOPS | 2.413 GFLOPS |
| L2 Cache | 2.00 MB | 1.00 MB |
| Die Size | 232 mm² | 228 mm² |
| Transistors | 5700 Million | 2940 Million |
| Required PSU | 450 W | 300 W |
| Power Connectors | 1x 8-pin | 1x 6-pin |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| DirectX | 12 | 12.1 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| Foundry | GlobalFoundries | TSMC |
Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks
3DMark Time Spy
Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads
Graphics Score
AMD Radeon RX 580X
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
Geekbench 6
Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs
OpenCL Score
AMD Radeon RX 580X
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
GFXBench 5.0
Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs
Aztec Ruins High (FPS)
AMD Radeon RX 580X
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
PassMark G2D
Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations
G2D Mark
AMD Radeon RX 580X
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
Game Benchmarks Comparison
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AMD Radeon RX 580X Wins!
Based on 4 synthetic benchmarks
AMD Radeon RX 580X
AMD • 8GB GDDR5
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
NVIDIA • 2GB GDDR5
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