NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M395X 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 Clock1176MHz

Lower TDP (75W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960M

1.505 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition +147%

3.723 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960M

VS

Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

May 2015

GeForce 900M

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1097 MHz

Base Clock

-

1176 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

640

Shading Units

2048

40

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.09 GPixel/s

47.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

116.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

3.723 TFLOPS

1.505 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.723 TFLOPS

47.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

232.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Amethyst

N16P-GX-A1

GPU Variant

Amethyst XT

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

5 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

250W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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