AMD Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

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AMD Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 's Advantages

Boost Clock1176MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition +30%

1.962 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960M

1.505 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 960M

Graphics Card

May 2015

Release Date

Mar 2015

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1097 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1176 MHz

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

640

64

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

30.66 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.82 GPixel/s

61.31 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

47.04 GTexel/s

-

1.962 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.505 TFLOPS

122.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

47.04 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GM107

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

N16P-GX-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

212 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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