NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs AMD Radeon HD 7850
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2015
Mar 2012
Generation
GeForce 900M
Southern Islands
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1097 MHz
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Boost Clock
1176 MHz
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Memory Clock
1253 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
80.19GB/s
153.6GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
640
1024
TMUs
40
64
ROPs
16
32
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SMM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
16
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
18.82 GPixel/s
27.52 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
47.04 GTexel/s
55.04 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.505 TFLOPS
1.761 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
47.04 GFLOPS
110.1 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM107
Pitcairn
GPU Variant
N16P-GX-A1
Pitcairn PRO(215-0828062)
Architecture
Maxwell
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
1.87 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
148 mm²
212 mm²
Board Design
TDP
75W
130W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Suggested PSU
—
300 W
Power Connectors
—
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
5.0
—
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Benchmark
Blender
185
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3DMark Time Spy
—
1,334
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
325
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.