ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 960
vs
AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

The ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 960 has 1024 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.18 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 2.41 TFLOPS.

The AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 has 3584 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.47 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 10.54 TFLOPS.

The ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 960 is equipped with a graphics chip of the Maxwell 2.0 architecture, which has 8 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 is based on the GCN 5 architecture and is equipped with 56 execution units.

The ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 960 is equipped with a 2 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.753 GHz clocks.

The AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 has a 8 GB large HBM2 graphics memory and the memory clock is 0.800GHz.

The ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 960 has a turbo clock of 1.178 GHz. The turbo frequency of the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 is 1.471 GHz.

The ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 960 has 1 x 6-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 98 °C.

The AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 is equipped with a 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 100 °C.

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 960 are cooled with a Air cooling.

The AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 is cooled by a Air cooling.

The ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 960 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 supports HDCP in version -- and all previous versions.

The ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 960 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

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.

The ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 960 is 41 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 is 41 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 28 nanometer process, ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 960 was released in Q1/2015.

The AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 published in Q3/2017 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.