NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 M275

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM and AMD Radeon R9 M275 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 31% higher core clock speed: 1176 MHz vs 900 MHz
  • Around 30% higher boost clock speed: 1201 MHz vs 925 MHz
  • 2.1x more texture fill rate: 76.86 GTexel / s vs 37 GTexel / s
  • Around 60% higher pipelines: 1024 vs 640
  • 2.1x better floating-point performance: 2,460 gflops vs 1,184 gflops
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
  • Around 75% higher memory clock speed: 7012 MHz vs 4000 MHz
  • 2.7x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 76.687 vs 28.064
  • 2.8x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 890.785 vs 313.463
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 26 November 2015 vs 28 January 2014
Core clock speed 1176 MHz vs 900 MHz
Boost clock speed 1201 MHz vs 925 MHz
Texture fill rate 76.86 GTexel / s vs 37 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1024 vs 640
Floating-point performance 2,460 gflops vs 1,184 gflops
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed 7012 MHz vs 4000 MHz
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 76.687 vs 28.064
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 890.785 vs 313.463

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M275

  • Around 20% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 34.381 vs 28.659
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 34.381 vs 28.659

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 M275

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
76.687
28.064
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
890.785
313.463
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
28.659
34.381
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM AMD Radeon R9 M275
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 76.687 28.064
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 890.785 313.463
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 28.659 34.381
PassMark - G3D Mark 1115
PassMark - G2D Mark 569
Geekbench - OpenCL 9231
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 2.206
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 121.685
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1162
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1717
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1162
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1717

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM AMD Radeon R9 M275

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell 2.0 GCN 1.0
Code name GM206 Venus
Launch date 26 November 2015 28 January 2014
Place in performance rating 1002 1004
Type Desktop Laptop
Launch price (MSRP) $799.99
Price now $699.99
Value for money (0-100) 3.01

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1201 MHz 925 MHz
Core clock speed 1176 MHz 900 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,460 gflops 1,184 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 1024 640
Texture fill rate 76.86 GTexel / s 37 GTexel / s
Transistor count 2,940 million 1,500 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None
Laptop size large

API support

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

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 112.2 GB / s 64 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 7012 MHz 4000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Shared memory 0