AMD Radeon R8 M445DX vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R8 M445DX and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s).

AMD Radeon R8 M445DX

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R8 M445DX

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 month(s) later

Launch date	15 May 2016 vs 26 November 2015

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Around 51% higher core clock speed: 1176 MHz vs 780 MHz
Around 18% higher boost clock speed: 1201 MHz vs 1021 MHz
Around 45% higher pipelines: 1024 vs 704

Core clock speed	1176 MHz vs 780 MHz
Boost clock speed	1201 MHz vs 1021 MHz
Pipelines	1024 vs 704

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R8 M445DX
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Name	AMD Radeon R8 M445DX	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1427
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1427
PassMark - G2D Mark	181
PassMark - G3D Mark	797
Geekbench - OpenCL	21666
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2636
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2636
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3358
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3358
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		76.687
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		890.785
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		28.659

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R8 M445DX	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0	Maxwell 2.0
Code name	Meso	GM206
Launch date	15 May 2016	26 November 2015
Place in performance rating	1002	1003
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1021 MHz	1201 MHz
Core clock speed	780 MHz	1176 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	704	1024
Transistor count	3,100 million	2,940 million
Floating-point performance		2,460 gflops
Texture fill rate		76.86 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Vulkan
Memory
Memory bus width	128 + 64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory type	DDR4 / DDR3	GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Maximum RAM amount		4 GB
Memory bandwidth		112.2 GB / s
Memory clock speed		7012 MHz