AMD Radeon RX 470 (Laptop) vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 470 (Laptop) and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, 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 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 470 (Laptop)

• Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 4 month(s) later
• Around 11% higher boost clock speed: 1206 MHz vs 1085 MHz
• 3.2x more texture fill rate: 137.5 GTexel / s vs 43.4 GTexel / s
• 3.2x more pipelines: 2048 vs 640
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
• 2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
• Around 32% higher memory clock speed: 6600 MHz vs 5012 MHz
• 2.8x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 34432 vs 12495
• 2.2x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 111.543 vs 49.772
• 2.4x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1817.005 vs 757.295
• 2.6x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 9.511 vs 3.67
• 2x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 99.875 vs 49.875
• 2.8x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 511.362 vs 179.567
• Around 94% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 9983 vs 5157
• Around 94% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 9983 vs 5157

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A

• Around 11% higher core clock speed: 1029 MHz vs 926 MHz
• 283.5x better floating-point performance: 1,389 gflops vs 4.9 TFLOPs
• Around 60% lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 120 Watt
• 2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 5834 vs 2443
• 4.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 7859 vs 1674
• 2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 5834 vs 2443
• 4.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 7859 vs 1674

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 470 (Laptop)
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A

Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	34432 12495
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	111.543 49.772
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1817.005 757.295
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	9.511 3.67
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	99.875 49.875
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	511.362 179.567
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	9983 5157
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2443 5834
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1674 7859
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	9983 5157
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2443 5834
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1674 7859

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