NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs AMD Radeon R9 M380 Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M AMD Radeon R9 M380 Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M380 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1176MHz vs 1021MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

AMD Radeon R9 M380 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (100.4GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960M

1.505 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M380 Mac Edition +4%

1.568 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960M

VS

Radeon R9 M380 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

May 2015

GeForce 900M

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1097 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1176 MHz

Boost Clock

1021 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1568 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

100.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

640

Shading Units

768

40

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.34 GPixel/s

47.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

49.01 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.505 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.568 TFLOPS

47.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

98.02 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Strato

N16P-GX-A1

GPU Variant

Strato PRO

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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