AMD Radeon HD 8590M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8590M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8590M and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 43% (1176MHz vs 825MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 36.00GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8590M

0.528 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960M +185%

1.505 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8590M

VS

GeForce GTX 960M

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Mar 2015

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

750 MHz

Base Clock

1097 MHz

825 MHz

Boost Clock

1176 MHz

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

36.00GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

640

20

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.82 GPixel/s

16.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

47.04 GTexel/s

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528.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.505 TFLOPS

33.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

47.04 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Sun

GPU Name

GM107

-

GPU Variant

N16P-GX-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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