NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2015
Jan 2013
Generation
GeForce 900M
Northern Islands
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1097 MHz
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Boost Clock
1176 MHz
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Memory Clock
1253 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
1024MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
80.19GB/s
134.4GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
640
1600
TMUs
40
80
ROPs
16
32
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SMM)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
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20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
18.82 GPixel/s
27.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
47.04 GTexel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.505 TFLOPS
2.720 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
47.04 GFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM107
Cypress
GPU Variant
N16P-GX-A1
Cypress XT(215-0735033)
Architecture
Maxwell
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
1.87 billion
2.154 billion
Die Size
148 mm²
334 mm²
Board Design
TDP
75W
175W
Outputs
No outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Suggested PSU
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450 W
Power Connectors
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2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
N/A
CUDA
5.0
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Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Benchmark
Blender
185
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.