NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs AMD Radeon Pro 580X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M AMD Radeon Pro 580X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 580X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 185W)

AMD Radeon Pro 580X 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1200MHz vs 1176MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (218.9GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960M

1.505 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 580X +267%

5.53 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 960M

185

Radeon Pro 580X +84%

341

GeForce GTX 960M

VS

Radeon Pro 580X

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Mar 2019

GeForce 900M

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1097 MHz

Base Clock

1100 MHz

1176 MHz

Boost Clock

1200 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1710 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

218.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

640

Shading Units

2304

40

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

18.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.40 GPixel/s

47.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

172.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.530 TFLOPS

1.505 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.530 TFLOPS

47.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

345.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Ellesmere

N16P-GX-A1

GPU Variant

Ellesmere XTA (216-0886220)

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

185W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

2x HDMI 2.0b

-

Power Connectors

None

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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