Radeon RX 470 vs GeForce GTX 960 OEM
Summary
Radeon RX 470
160%
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider Radeon RX 470 |
| Around 60% higher average synthetic performance. |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports FreeSync |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports TrueAudio |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 960 OEM |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon RX 470
The Radeon RX 470 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| Radeon RX 470 | | GeForce GTX 960 OEM | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Ellesmere (Ellesmere PRO) | vs | GM204 (GTX 960 OEM) |
| Fab Process | 14 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 232 mm² | vs | 398 mm² |
| Transistors | 5,700 million | vs | 5,200 million |
| Shaders | 2048 | vs | 1280 |
| Compute Units | 32 | vs | 10 |
| Core clock | 926 MHz | vs | 924 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 48 |
| TMUs | 128 | vs | 80 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon RX 470 | | GeForce GTX 960 OEM | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 192 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1650 MHz
6600 MHz effective | vs | 1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 4096 Mb | vs | 3072 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon RX 470 | | GeForce GTX 960 OEM | |
|---|
| TDP | 120 watts | vs | 0 watts |
| Release Date | 29 Jun 2016 | vs | 26 Nov 2015 |
Radeon RX 470
38.60 GP/s
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
44.40 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon RX 470
154.40 GT/s
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
73.90 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon RX 470
211.20 GB/s
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
120.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon RX 470
4940.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
2365.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Radeon RX 470
16690
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
10380
Points (higher is better)