NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2015
Mar 2015
Generation
GeForce 900M
Volcanic Islands
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1097 MHz
900 MHz
Boost Clock
1176 MHz
925 MHz
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
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16
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
18.82 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
47.04 GTexel/s
59.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.505 TFLOPS
1.894 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
47.04 GFLOPS
118.4 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
150W
Outputs
No outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Suggested PSU
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450 W
Power Connectors
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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
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Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Benchmark
Blender
185
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.