NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 8530M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM and AMD Radeon HD 8530M 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: 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), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • Around 81% higher core clock speed: 1176 MHz vs 650 MHz
  • Around 72% higher boost clock speed: 1201 MHz vs 700 MHz
  • 4.6x more texture fill rate: 76.86 GTexel / s vs 16.8 GTexel / s
  • 2.7x more pipelines: 1024 vs 384
  • 4.6x better floating-point performance: 2,460 gflops vs 537.6 gflops
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
  • 3.9x more memory clock speed: 7012 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Launch date 26 November 2015 vs 10 January 2014
Core clock speed 1176 MHz vs 650 MHz
Boost clock speed 1201 MHz vs 700 MHz
Texture fill rate 76.86 GTexel / s vs 16.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1024 vs 384
Floating-point performance 2,460 gflops vs 537.6 gflops
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed 7012 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8530M

Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM AMD Radeon HD 8530M
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
PassMark - G3D Mark 490
PassMark - G2D Mark 438
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2455
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 39.6

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM AMD Radeon HD 8530M

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell 2.0 GCN 1.0
Code name GM206 Mars
Launch date 26 November 2015 10 January 2014
Place in performance rating 960 579
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1201 MHz 700 MHz
Core clock speed 1176 MHz 650 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,460 gflops 537.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 1024 384
Texture fill rate 76.86 GTexel / s 16.8 GTexel / s
Transistor count 2,940 million 1,040 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.5

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 112.2 GB / s 14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 7012 MHz 1800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3