ASRock Radeon RX 5500 XT Challenger D 8G OC
vs
ZOTAC GeForce GTX 960 4GB


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The ASRock Radeon RX 5500 XT Challenger D 8G OC has 1408 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.85 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 5.20 TFLOPS.

The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 960 4GB has 1024 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.24 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 2.54 TFLOPS.

GPU

The ASRock Radeon RX 5500 XT Challenger D 8G OC is equipped with a graphics chip of the RDNA 1 architecture, which has 22 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card ZOTAC GeForce GTX 960 4GB is based on the Maxwell 2.0 architecture and is equipped with 8 execution units.
ASRock Radeon RX 5500 XT Challenger D 8G OC GPU ZOTAC GeForce GTX 960 4GB
AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
Navi 14 XTX GPU Chip GM206-300-A1
RDNA 1 Architecture Maxwell 2.0
22 Streaming Multiprocessors 8
1408 Shader 1024
32 Render Output Units 32
88 Texture Units 64
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The ASRock Radeon RX 5500 XT Challenger D 8G OC is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.750 GHz clocks.

The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 960 4GB has a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.753GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 4 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR5
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 1.753 GHz
14.0 Gbps Memory Speed 7.0 Gbps
224 GB/s Memory bandwidth 112 GB/s
128 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The ASRock Radeon RX 5500 XT Challenger D 8G OC has a turbo clock of 1.845 GHz. The turbo frequency of the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 960 4GB is 1.240 GHz.

1.685 GHz Base Clock 1.177 GHz
1.845 GHz Boost Clock 1.240 GHz
1.74 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The ASRock Radeon RX 5500 XT Challenger D 8G OC has 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 95 °C.

The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 960 4GB is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 98 °C.

130 W TDP 120 W
-- TDP (up) --
95 °C Tjunction max 98 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the ASRock Radeon RX 5500 XT Challenger D 8G OC are cooled with a Air cooling.

The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 960 4GB is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 90 mm Fan 1 2 x 75 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
40 dB Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The ASRock Radeon RX 5500 XT Challenger D 8G OC supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 960 4GB supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0
3x DP v1.4 DP Ports 3x DP v1.2
-- DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The ASRock Radeon RX 5500 XT Challenger D 8G OC supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 960 4GB supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 4096x2160
12_1 DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR No
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC No
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode / Encode VP9 No

Dimensions

The ASRock Radeon RX 5500 XT Challenger D 8G OC is 42 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 960 4GB is 42 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

241 mm Length 206 mm
127 mm Height 111 mm
42 mm Width --
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 8 GPU Interface PCIe 3 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 7 nanometer process, ASRock Radeon RX 5500 XT Challenger D 8G OC was released in Q3/2019.

The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 960 4GB published in Q1/2015 is manufactured with a structure width of 28 nanometers.

RX5500XT CLD 8GO Part-no ZT-90308-10M
Q3/2019 Release date Q1/2015
169 $ (Reference) Launch Price 249 $
7 nm Structure size 28 nm
data sheet Documents --

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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