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).

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

AMD Radeon R9 M275

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	1003	1005
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