NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs AMD Radeon HD 6990M
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2015
Jul 2011
Generation
GeForce 900M
Vancouver
Type
Mobile
Mobile
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1097 MHz
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Boost Clock
1176 MHz
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Memory Clock
1253 MHz
900 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
80.19GB/s
115.2GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
640
1120
TMUs
40
56
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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14
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
18.82 GPixel/s
22.88 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
47.04 GTexel/s
40.04 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.505 TFLOPS
1.602 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
47.04 GFLOPS
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Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM107
Blackcomb
GPU Variant
N16P-GX-A1
Blackcomb XTX(216-0811030)
Architecture
Maxwell
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
1.87 billion
1.7 billion
Die Size
148 mm²
212 mm²
Board Design
TDP
75W
100W
Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Power Connectors
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None
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.