NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
vs
GIGABYTE Radeon RX 590 Gaming 8G (rev. 2.0)

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.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 590 Gaming 8G (rev. 2.0) has 2304 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.56 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 7.19 TFLOPS.

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 GIGABYTE Radeon RX 590 Gaming 8G (rev. 2.0) is based on the GCN 4 architecture and is equipped with 36 execution units.

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

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 590 Gaming 8G (rev. 2.0) has a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.000GHz.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 has a turbo clock of 1.178 GHz. The turbo frequency of the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 590 Gaming 8G (rev. 2.0) is 1.560 GHz.

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 GIGABYTE Radeon RX 590 Gaming 8G (rev. 2.0) 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.

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

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 590 Gaming 8G (rev. 2.0) is cooled by a Air cooling.

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

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 590 Gaming 8G (rev. 2.0) supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

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

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 590 Gaming 8G (rev. 2.0) supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12.

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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 590 Gaming 8G (rev. 2.0) is -- and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

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

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 590 Gaming 8G (rev. 2.0) published in Q4/2018 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.