GeForce GTX 960 OEM and Radeon RX 6500 XT - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
Radeon RX 6500 XT
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GM206
Navi 24
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2015
January 2022
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x4
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1201 MHz
2815 MHz
Core clock speed
924 MHz
2610 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,460 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
5,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
-
107 Watt
Texture fill rate
76.86
180.2
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
7012 MHz
18000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112.2 GB/s
143.9 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
5.2
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.6
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.3