AMD Radeon Vega 3 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega 3 Mobile 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, 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 Vega 3 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 3 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 2 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm

Launch date	1 February 2018 vs 26 November 2015
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

3.9x more core clock speed: 1176 MHz vs 300 MHz
Around 19% higher boost clock speed: 1201 MHz vs 1011 MHz

Core clock speed	1176 MHz vs 300 MHz
Boost clock speed	1201 MHz vs 1011 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega 3 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Name	AMD Radeon Vega 3 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark	1034
PassMark - G2D Mark	314
Geekbench - OpenCL	4468
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	404
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1850
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1850
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3180
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3180
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 Vega 3 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5.0	Maxwell 2.0
Code name	Raven	GM206
Launch date	1 February 2018	26 November 2015
Place in performance rating	1004	1007
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1011 MHz	1201 MHz
Core clock speed	300 MHz	1176 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt
Transistor count	4,940 million	2,940 million
Floating-point performance		2,460 gflops
Pipelines		1024
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
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		4 GB
Memory bandwidth		112.2 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		7012 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5