AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 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.

AMD Radeon RX Vega 2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 2

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 9 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm

Launch date	7 Jan 2018 vs 13 March 2015
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

Around 7% higher boost clock speed: 1176 MHz vs 1100 MHz
5x more pipelines: 640 vs 128
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 247 vs 244
6.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3399 vs 506
3.3x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 10722 vs 3208

Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed	1176 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Pipelines	640 vs 128
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	247 vs 244
PassMark - G3D Mark	3399 vs 506
Geekbench - OpenCL	10722 vs 3208

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 2
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

244

247

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

506

3399

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

3208

10722

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 2	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
PassMark - G2D Mark	244	247
PassMark - G3D Mark	506	3399
Geekbench - OpenCL	3208	10722
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 - Manhattan (Frames)		3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		5264
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1230

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 2	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Maxwell
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	GM107
Launch date	7 Jan 2018	13 March 2015
Place in performance rating	949	770
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1100 MHz	1176 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	128	640
Transistor count	4500 million	1,870 million
Core clock speed		1096 MHz
CUDA cores		640
Floating-point performance		1,505 gflops
Texture fill rate		47.04 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		75 Watt
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL		4.5
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support		1
HDMI
VGA аnalog display support		1
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support		PCI Express 3.0
Interface		MXM-B (3.0)
Laptop size		medium sized
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		4 GB
Memory bandwidth		80 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		2500 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
Adaptive VSync
Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
DSR
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI