NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A vs AMD Radeon R9 M470X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A

AMD Radeon R9 M470X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960A and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M470X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 76.80GB/s)

AMD Radeon R9 M470X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1100MHz vs 1085MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960A

1.389 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M470X +41%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960A

VS

Radeon R9 M470X

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

1000 MHz

1085 MHz

Boost Clock

1100 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

76.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

-

640

Shading Units

896

40

TMUs

56

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

17.60 GPixel/s

43.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

-

1389 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

43.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Emerald

N16P-GX-A1

GPU Variant

Emerald XT

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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