NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 9% (1176MHz vs 1077MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960M

1.505 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480 Mobile +229%

4.963 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960M

VS

Radeon RX 480 Mobile

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 900M

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1097 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1176 MHz

Boost Clock

1077 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

-

640

Shading Units

2304

40

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

34.46 GPixel/s

47.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.963 TFLOPS

1.505 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.963 TFLOPS

47.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

310.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Ellesmere

N16P-GX-A1

GPU Variant

Ellesmere XT

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

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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