NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs AMD Radeon E9172 MXM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

AMD Radeon E9172 MXM

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M and 2GB VRAM Radeon E9172 MXM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon E9172 MXM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1219MHz vs 1176MHz)

Lower TDP (35W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960M +20%

1.505 TFLOPS

Radeon E9172 MXM

1.248 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960M

VS

Radeon E9172 MXM

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Oct 2017

GeForce 900M

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1097 MHz

Base Clock

1124 MHz

1176 MHz

Boost Clock

1219 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

-

640

Shading Units

512

40

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.50 GPixel/s

47.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.01 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1248 GFLOPS

1.505 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1248 GFLOPS

47.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

78.02 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

35W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Lexa

N16P-GX-A1

GPU Variant

E9170

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

103 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

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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