AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT $199
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM
1024 Shaders
4GB GDDR6
2815MHz
1280 Shaders
3GB GDDR5
924MHz
FP32
5.77 TFLOPS
FP32
2.37 TFLOPS
FP16
11.53 TFLOPS
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Form Factor
PCIe Card
2.0-Slots
Form Factor
PCIe Card
2.0-Slots
TDP
107W
TDP
Unknown
Power Connectors
1x 6-Pin
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Power Connectors
1x 6-Pin
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GB5 OpenCL 53,340
17%
GB5 OpenCL - N/A
0%
GB5 CUDA - N/A
0%
GB5 CUDA - N/A
0%
GB5 Metal - N/A
0%
GB5 Metal - N/A
0%
GB5 Vulkan 40,335
20%
GB5 Vulkan - N/A
0%
OCT 2020.1 - N/A
0%
OCT 2020.1 - N/A
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OCT Metal 90
15%
OCT Metal - N/A
0%
Manufacturer
AMD
Manufacturer
NVIDIA
Chip Designer
AMD
Chip Designer
NVIDIA
Architecture
RDNA 2
Architecture
Maxwell 2
Family
Radeon RX 6000
Family
GeForce 900
Codename
Beige Goby
Navi 24
Variant
Navi 24 XT
Codename
NV124
GM204
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Market Segment
Desktop
Market Segment
Desktop
Release Date
1/19/2022
Release Date
1/22/2015
Foundry
TSMC
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Foundry
TSMC
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Fabrication Node
N6
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Fabrication Node
28nm
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Die Size
107 mm²
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Die Size
398 mm²
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Transistor Count
5.4 Billion
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Transistor Count
5.2 Billion
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Transistor Density
50.47M/mm²
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Transistor Density
13.07M/mm²
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Form
PCIe Card
Form
PCIe Card
Shading Units
1024 Shaders
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Shading Units
1280 Shaders
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Texture Mapping Units
64 TMUs
Texture Mapping Units
80 TMUs
Render Output Units
32 ROPs
Render Output Units
48 ROPs
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Ray-Tracing Cores
16 RT-Cores
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Streaming Multiprocessors
10 SMs
Compute Units
16 CUs
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Graphics Processing Clusters
1 GPC
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2610MHz Base
2815MHz
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924MHz
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FP16
11.53 TFLOPS
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FP32
5.77 TFLOPS
FP32
2.37 TFLOPS
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FP64
0.36 TFLOPS
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FP64
0.07 TFLOPS
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Pixel Fillrate
90.08 GPixel/s
Pixel Fillrate
44.352 GPixel/s
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Texture Fillrate
180.16 GTexel/s
Texture Fillrate
73.92 GTexel/s
L0
32KB/WGP
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L1
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128KB/Array
L1
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48KB/SM
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L2
1MB Shared
L2
1MB Shared
L3
16MB Shared
0.42TB/s
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4GB
GDDR6
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3GB
GDDR5
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Bus Width
64Bit
Bus Width
192Bit
Clock
2250MHz
Transfer Rate
18GT/s
Bandwidth
144GB/s
Clock
1250MHz
Transfer Rate
5GT/s
Bandwidth
120GB/s
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TDP
107W
TDP
Unknown
Temp
110°C Max
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1x DisplayPort 1.4
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1x HDMI 2.1
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1x DVI-I Dual-Link
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3x DisplayPort 1.2
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1x HDMI 2.0
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Max Resolution
7680x4320
Max Resolution
4096x2304
Max Resolution Refresh Rate
120Hz
Max Resolution Refresh Rate
60Hz
Variable Refresh Rate
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FreeSync
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Variable Refresh Rate
G-Sync
FreeSync
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Display Stream Compression (DSC)
Supported
Display Stream Compression (DSC)
Not Supported
Multi Monitor Support
2
Multi Monitor Support
3
Content Protection
HDCP 2.3
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No Encoders
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Model
2x NVENC 3
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Codec
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AVC (H.264)
HEVC (H.265)
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Model
VCN 3.0
Model
NVDEC 1
Codec
MPEG-1
MPEG-2
MPEG-4
JPEG
VC-1
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VP9
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AVC (H.264)
HEVC (H.265)
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AV1
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Codec
MPEG-1
MPEG-2
MPEG-4
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VC-1
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AVC (H.264)
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Direct X
12
Direct 3D
12_2
Direct X
12
Direct 3D
12_1
OpenGL
4.6
OpenCL
2.2
Vulkan
1.3
OpenGL
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
Shader Model
6.6
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GFX
10.3
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Shader Model
6.7
CUDA
5.2
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PureVideo HD
VP6
VDPAU
Feature Set E
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1x Fan
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1x Fan
Power Connectors
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1x 6-Pin
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Power Connectors
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1x 6-Pin
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Slots Required
2.0
PCIe Version
4.0
PCIe Lanes
4
Slots Required
2.0
PCIe Version
3.0
PCIe Lanes
16
Multi GPU Support
Supported
Type
Bridgeless
Multi GPU Support
Supported
Type
2-way SLI
Height
110 mm (4.33 in)
Width
190 mm (7.48 in)
Depth
40 mm (1.57 in)
Height
111 mm (4.37 in)
Width
241 mm (9.49 in)
Depth
38 mm (1.5 in)
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