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).

 

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 1001 1002
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