GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs Radeon RX 560

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking461not rated
Place by popularity79not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.48no data
Power efficiency9.09no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code namePolaris 21GM206
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date18 April 2017 (7 years ago)26 November 2015 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$99 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores10241024
Core clock speed1175 MHz1176 MHz
Boost clock speed1275 MHz1201 MHz
Number of transistors3,000 million2,940 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Wattno data
Texture fill rate81.6076.86
Floating-point processing power2.611 TFLOPS2.46 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs6464

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 3.0 x16
Length170 mmno data
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1753 MHz
Memory bandwidth112.0 GB/s112.2 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.1.126
CUDA-5.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 April 2017 26 November 2015
Chip lithography 14 nm 28 nm

RX 560 has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 560 and GeForce GTX 960 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX 560
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