AMD Radeon R9 M470 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 M470 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D 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 - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.
Differences
Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M470
- Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 2 month(s) later
- Around 2% higher texture fill rate: 48 GTexel / s vs 47.04 GTexel / s
- Around 20% higher pipelines: 768 vs 640
- Around 2% better floating-point performance: 1,536 gflops vs 1,505 gflops
- 2.4x more memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 2500 MHz
- Around 24% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 307 vs 247
- 4.5x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 47924 vs 10722
| Specifications (specs) | |
| Launch date | 15 May 2016 vs 13 March 2015 |
| Texture fill rate | 48 GTexel / s vs 47.04 GTexel / s |
| Pipelines | 768 vs 640 |
| Floating-point performance | 1,536 gflops vs 1,505 gflops |
| Memory clock speed | 6000 MHz vs 2500 MHz |
| Benchmarks | |
| PassMark - G2D Mark | 307 vs 247 |
| Geekbench - OpenCL | 47924 vs 10722 |
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
- Around 22% higher core clock speed: 1096 MHz vs 900 MHz
- Around 18% higher boost clock speed: 1176 MHz vs 1000 MHz
- Around 46% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3399 vs 2331
- 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3714 vs 1804
- 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3714 vs 1804
- 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3358 vs 1674
- 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3358 vs 1674
| Specifications (specs) | |
| Core clock speed | 1096 MHz vs 900 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 1176 MHz vs 1000 MHz |
| Benchmarks | |
| PassMark - G3D Mark | 3399 vs 2331 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) | 3714 vs 1804 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 3714 vs 1804 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 3358 vs 1674 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 3358 vs 1674 |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 M470
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
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| Name | AMD Radeon R9 M470 | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M |
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| PassMark - G3D Mark | 2331 | 3399 |
| PassMark - G2D Mark | 307 | 247 |
| Geekbench - OpenCL | 47924 | 10722 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) | 1804 | 3714 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 1804 | 3714 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 1674 | 3358 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 1674 | 3358 |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) | 54.294 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) | 795.325 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) | 3.692 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) | 51.794 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) | 174.513 | |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) | 5264 | |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 5264 | |
| 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score | 1230 |
Compare specifications (specs)
| AMD Radeon R9 M470 | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M | |
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| Architecture | GCN 2.0 | Maxwell |
| Code name | Strato | GM107 |
| Launch date | 15 May 2016 | 13 March 2015 |
| Place in performance rating | 769 | 770 |
| Type | Laptop | Laptop |
Technical info |
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| Boost clock speed | 1000 MHz | 1176 MHz |
| Core clock speed | 900 MHz | 1096 MHz |
| Floating-point performance | 1,536 gflops | 1,505 gflops |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Pipelines | 768 | 640 |
| Texture fill rate | 48 GTexel / s | 47.04 GTexel / s |
| Transistor count | 2,080 million | 1,870 million |
| CUDA cores | 640 | |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 75 Watt | |
Video outputs and ports |
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| Display Connectors | No outputs | No outputs |
| DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support | 1 | |
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| VGA аnalog display support | 1 | |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | MXM-B (3.0) |
| Laptop size | large | medium sized |
| Bus support | PCI Express 3.0 | |
API support |
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| DirectX | 12.0 (12_0) | 12.0 (11_0) |
| OpenGL | 4.5 | 4.5 |
Memory |
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| Maximum RAM amount | 4 GB | 4 GB |
| Memory bandwidth | 96 GB / s | 80 GB / s |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | 128 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | 6000 MHz | 2500 MHz |
| Memory type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Shared memory | 0 | 0 |
Technologies |
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| DSR | ||
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| GeForce ShadowPlay | ||
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| H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder | ||
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