NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 485M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1176MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960M +70%

1.505 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 485M

0.883 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960M

VS

GeForce GTX 485M

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 400M

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

750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

640

Shading Units

384

40

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.200 GPixel/s

47.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.80 GTexel/s

-

1.505 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

883.2 GFLOPS

47.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

73.60 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

GF104

N16P-GX-A1

GPU Variant

N12E-GTX-A1

Maxwell

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.0

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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