KFA2 GeForce GTX 960 Gamer OC
vs
MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The KFA2 GeForce GTX 960 Gamer OC has 1024 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.25 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 2.56 TFLOPS.

The MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming has 2304 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.60 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 7.38 TFLOPS.

GPU

The KFA2 GeForce GTX 960 Gamer OC is equipped with a graphics chip of the Maxwell 2.0 architecture, which has 8 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming is based on the RDNA 1 architecture and is equipped with 36 execution units.
KFA2 GeForce GTX 960 Gamer OC GPU MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 Based on AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT
GM206-300-A1 GPU Chip Navi 10 XLE
Maxwell 2.0 Architecture RDNA 1
8 Streaming Multiprocessors 36
1024 Shader 2304
32 Render Output Units 64
64 Texture Units 144
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The KFA2 GeForce GTX 960 Gamer OC is equipped with a 2 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.753 GHz clocks.

The MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming has a 6 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

2 GB Memory Size 6 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR6
1.753 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
7.0 Gbps Memory Speed 14.0 Gbps
112 GB/s Memory bandwidth 336 GB/s
128 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The KFA2 GeForce GTX 960 Gamer OC has a turbo clock of 1.253 GHz. The turbo frequency of the MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming is 1.600 GHz.

1.190 GHz Base Clock 1.185 GHz
1.253 GHz Boost Clock 1.600 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 1.42 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The KFA2 GeForce GTX 960 Gamer OC 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 MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming 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 160 W
-- TDP (up) 195 W
98 °C Tjunction max 100 °C
1 x 6-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the KFA2 GeForce GTX 960 Gamer OC are cooled with a Air cooling.

The MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 75 mm Fan 1 2 x 100 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 28 dB
-- Noise (Load) 33 dB

Connectivity

The KFA2 GeForce GTX 960 Gamer OC supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.3
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 KFA2 GeForce GTX 960 Gamer OC supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

4096x2160 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
No Raytracing No
No DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED MSI Mystic Light

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 KFA2 GeForce GTX 960 Gamer OC is 41 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming is 41 mm and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

193 mm Length 297 mm
124 mm Height 140 mm
41 mm Width 58 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight 1401 g
PCIe 3 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16
No SFF-Ready No

Additional data

Manufactured using the 28 nanometer process, KFA2 GeForce GTX 960 Gamer OC was released in Q4/2015.

The MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming published in Q1/2020 is manufactured with a structure width of 7 nanometers.

96NQH8DHD8Z4 Part-no --
Q4/2015 Release date Q1/2020
229 $ Launch Price 279 $ (Reference)
28 nm Structure size 7 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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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)

MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming
6 GB GDDR6
29 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming
6 GB GDDR6
53 fps (avg)

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)

MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming
6 GB GDDR6
41 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming
6 GB GDDR6
83 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming
6 GB GDDR6
116 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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