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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD Radeon RX 470

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2 GB GDDR5 · 1.18 GHz · 120 W Speed index 2/100

The NVIDIA 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.

AMD Radeon RX 470
AMD Radeon RX 470 4 GB GDDR5 · 1.21 GHz · 120 W Speed index 4/100

The AMD Radeon RX 470 has 2048 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.21 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 4.94 TFLOPS.

Quick comparison

In FP32 performance, the AMD Radeon RX 470 is 105 % faster than the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960AMD Radeon RX 470
Speed index
2/100
4/100
FP32
2.41 TFLOPS
4.94 TFLOPS
Boost Clock
1.18 GHz
1.21 GHz
Memory Size
2 GB GDDR5
4 GB GDDR5
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
211 GB/s
TDP
120 W
120 W
Launch Price
199 $
179 $
67 pts
118 pts

GPU

GPUNVIDIA GeForce GTX 960AMD Radeon RX 470
Based onNVIDIA GeForce GTX 960AMD Radeon RX 470
GPU ChipGM206-300-A1Polaris 10 PRO
Streaming Multiprocessors832
Shader10242048
Render Output Units3232
Texture Units64128
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The NVIDIA 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 470 is based on the Ellesmere architecture and is equipped with 32 execution units.

Memory

MemoryNVIDIA GeForce GTX 960AMD Radeon RX 470
Memory Size2 GB4 GB
Memory TypeGDDR5GDDR5
Memory Clock1.753 GHz1.650 GHz
Memory Speed7.0 Gbps6.6 Gbps
Memory bandwidth112 GB/s211 GB/s
Memory Interface128 bit256 bit
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The NVIDIA 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 470 has a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.650GHz.

Clock Speeds

Clock SpeedsNVIDIA GeForce GTX 960AMD Radeon RX 470
Base Clock1.127 GHz0.926 GHz
Boost Clock1.178 GHz1.206 GHz
OverclockingYesYes
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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 has a turbo clock of 1.178 GHz. The turbo frequency of the AMD Radeon RX 470 is 1.206 GHz.

Thermal Design

Thermal DesignNVIDIA GeForce GTX 960AMD Radeon RX 470
TDP120 W120 W
Tjunction max98 °C93 °C
PCIe-Power1 x 6-Pin1 x 6-Pin
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The NVIDIA 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 470 is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 93 °C.

Cooler & Fans

Cooler & FansNVIDIA GeForce GTX 960AMD Radeon RX 470
Fan-TypeRadialRadial
Fan 11 x 65 mm1 x 65 mm
Cooler-TypeAir coolingAir cooling
Noise (Idle)0 dB--
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The graphics processor and graphics memory of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 are cooled with a Air cooling.

The AMD Radeon RX 470 is cooled by a Air cooling.

Connectivity

ConnectivityNVIDIA GeForce GTX 960AMD Radeon RX 470
Max. Displays44
HDCP2.22.2
HDMI1x HDMI 2.01x HDMI 2.0b
DisplayPort3x DP 1.23x DP 1.4a
DVI1--
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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The AMD Radeon RX 470 supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

Featureset

FeaturesetNVIDIA GeForce GTX 960AMD Radeon RX 470
Max. resolution4096x21607680x4320
DirectX12_112_0
RaytracingNoNo
DLSS / FSRNoYes
LEDNo LED lightingNo LED lighting
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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The AMD Radeon RX 470 supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_0.

Supported Video Codecs

Supported Video CodecsNVIDIA GeForce GTX 960AMD Radeon RX 470
h264Decode / EncodeDecode / Encode
h265 / HEVCNoDecode / Encode
VP8DecodeNo
VP9NoNo
AV1NoNo
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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.

Dimensions

DimensionsNVIDIA GeForce GTX 960AMD Radeon RX 470
Length241 mm240 mm
Height--95 mm
Width--35 mm
Width (Slots)2 Slots2 Slots
SFF-ReadyNoNo
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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the AMD Radeon RX 470 is -- and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Additional data

Additional dataNVIDIA GeForce GTX 960AMD Radeon RX 470
GPU InterfacePCIe 3 x 16PCIe 3.0 x 16
Release dateQ1/2015Q3/2016
Launch Price199 $179 $
Structure size28 nm14 nm
Documents--data sheet
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Manufactured using the 28 nanometer process, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 was released in Q1/2015.

The AMD Radeon RX 470 published in Q3/2016 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.

Benchmark results

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 AMD Radeon RX 470 +101.5 %

  1. 17,964
  2. 36,194

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan AMD Radeon RX 470 +91.2 %

  1. 20,498
  2. 39,194

Geekbench 6 - Metal

  1. no data
  2. 36,011

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