Palit GeForce GTX 960 OC 4GB
vs
GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 G1 Gaming 4G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The Palit GeForce GTX 960 OC 4GB has 1024 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.23 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 2.51 TFLOPS.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 G1 Gaming 4G has 2304 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.29 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.94 TFLOPS.

GPU

The Palit GeForce GTX 960 OC 4GB is equipped with a graphics chip of the Maxwell 2.0 architecture, which has 8 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 G1 Gaming 4G is based on the Ellesmere architecture and is equipped with 36 execution units.
Palit GeForce GTX 960 OC 4GB GPU GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 G1 Gaming 4G
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 Based on AMD Radeon RX 480
GM206-300-A1 GPU Chip Polaris 10 XT
Maxwell 2.0 Architecture Ellesmere
8 Streaming Multiprocessors 36
1024 Shader 2304
32 Render Output Units 32
64 Texture Units 144
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

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

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 G1 Gaming 4G has a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

4 GB Memory Size 4 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR5
1.753 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
7.0 Gbps Memory Speed 7.0 Gbps
112 GB/s Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s
128 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The Palit GeForce GTX 960 OC 4GB has a turbo clock of 1.228 GHz. The turbo frequency of the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 G1 Gaming 4G is 1.290 GHz.

1.165 GHz Base Clock 1.120 GHz
1.228 GHz Boost Clock 1.290 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The Palit GeForce GTX 960 OC 4GB 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 480 G1 Gaming 4G is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 100 °C.

120 W TDP 150 W
-- TDP (up) --
98 °C Tjunction max 100 °C
1 x 6-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the Palit GeForce GTX 960 OC 4GB are cooled with a Air cooling.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 G1 Gaming 4G is cooled by a Air cooling.

Radial Fan-Type Axial
1 x 65 mm Fan 1 2 x 80 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The Palit GeForce GTX 960 OC 4GB supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 G1 Gaming 4G 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
1x DP v1.2 DP Ports 3x DP v1.4a
2 DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The Palit GeForce GTX 960 OC 4GB supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 G1 Gaming 4G supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_0.

4096x2160 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_0
No Raytracing No
No DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED 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 No
No VP9 No

Dimensions

The Palit GeForce GTX 960 OC 4GB is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 G1 Gaming 4G is -- and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

247 mm Length 232 mm
112 mm Height 116 mm
-- Width 40 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 28 nanometer process, Palit GeForce GTX 960 OC 4GB was released in Q1/2015.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 G1 Gaming 4G published in Q2/2016 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.

NE5X960010G1F Part-no GV-RX480G1 GAMING-4GD
Q1/2015 Release date Q2/2016
229 $ Launch Price 199 $ (Reference)
28 nm Structure size 14 nm
-- 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

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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