GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 XTREME GAMING
vs
ASUS Radeon RX Vega 64 Silver


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 XTREME GAMING has 1024 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.37 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 2.80 TFLOPS.

The ASUS Radeon RX Vega 64 Silver has 4096 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.55 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 12.66 TFLOPS.

GPU

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

The graphics card ASUS Radeon RX Vega 64 Silver is based on the GCN 5 architecture and is equipped with 64 execution units.
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 XTREME GAMING GPU ASUS Radeon RX Vega 64 Silver
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 Based on AMD RX Vega 64
GM206-300-A1 GPU Chip Vega 10 XT
Maxwell 2.0 Architecture GCN 5
8 Streaming Multiprocessors 64
1024 Shader 4096
32 Render Output Units 64
64 Texture Units 256
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 XTREME GAMING is equipped with a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.753 GHz clocks.

The ASUS Radeon RX Vega 64 Silver has a 8 GB large HBM2 graphics memory and the memory clock is 0.945GHz.

4 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type HBM2
1.753 GHz Memory Clock 0.945 GHz
7.0 Gbps Memory Speed 1.9 Gbps
112 GB/s Memory bandwidth 484 GB/s
128 bit Memory Interface 2048 bit

Clock Speeds

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 XTREME GAMING has a turbo clock of 1.367 GHz. The turbo frequency of the ASUS Radeon RX Vega 64 Silver is 1.546 GHz.

1.304 GHz Base Clock 1.247 GHz
1.367 GHz Boost Clock 1.546 GHz
1.34 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 XTREME GAMING has 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 98 °C.

The ASUS Radeon RX Vega 64 Silver 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.

120 W TDP 295 W
-- TDP (up) --
98 °C Tjunction max 100 °C
1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 XTREME GAMING are cooled with a Air cooling.

The ASUS Radeon RX Vega 64 Silver is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Radial
2 x 85 mm Fan 1 1 x 75 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 XTREME GAMING supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The ASUS Radeon RX Vega 64 Silver supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

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

Featureset

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 XTREME GAMING supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The ASUS Radeon RX Vega 64 Silver supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

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

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

Dimensions

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 XTREME GAMING is 40 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the ASUS Radeon RX Vega 64 Silver is 40 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

262 mm Length 283 mm
127 mm Height 130 mm
40 mm Width 40 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16
No SFF-Ready No

Additional data

Manufactured using the 28 nanometer process, GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 XTREME GAMING was released in Q1/2016.

The ASUS Radeon RX Vega 64 Silver published in Q3/2017 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.

GV-N960XTREME-4GD Part-no RXVEGA64-8G-SILVER
Q1/2016 Release date Q3/2017
229 $ Launch Price 499 $ (Reference)
28 nm Structure size 14 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

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)

ASUS Radeon RX Vega 64 Silver ASUS Radeon RX Vega 64 Silver
8 GB HBM2
64 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

ASUS Radeon RX Vega 64 Silver ASUS Radeon RX Vega 64 Silver
8 GB HBM2
92 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

ASUS Radeon RX Vega 64 Silver ASUS Radeon RX Vega 64 Silver
8 GB HBM2
128 fps (avg)

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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