NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A vs AMD Radeon R9 M470

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A

AMD Radeon R9 M470

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960A and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1085MHz vs 1000MHz)

AMD Radeon R9 M470 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960A

1.389 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M470 +10%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960A

VS

Radeon R9 M470

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

May 2016

GeForce 900A

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1029 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1085 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

-

640

Shading Units

768

40

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

43.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

-

1389 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

43.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Emerald

N16P-GX-A1

GPU Variant

Emerald 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

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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