NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A vs ATI FireGL V8650

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A and ATI FireGL V8650 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, 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 50% higher core clock speed: 1029 MHz vs 688 MHz
  • 3.9x more texture fill rate: 43.4 GTexel / s vs 11.01 GTexel / s
  • 2x more pipelines: 640 vs 320
  • 3.2x better floating-point performance: 1,389 gflops vs 440.3 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
  • 2.9x more memory clock speed: 5012 MHz vs 1736 MHz
  • 4.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2411 vs 550
  • 2.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 7859 vs 3357
  • 2.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 7859 vs 3357
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 March 2015 vs 14 May 2007
Core clock speed 1029 MHz vs 688 MHz
Texture fill rate 43.4 GTexel / s vs 11.01 GTexel / s
Pipelines 640 vs 320
Floating-point performance 1,389 gflops vs 440.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 80 nm
Memory clock speed 5012 MHz vs 1736 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 2411 vs 550
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 7859 vs 3357
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 7859 vs 3357

Reasons to consider the ATI FireGL V8650

  • Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 637 vs 631
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 637 vs 631

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A
GPU 2: ATI FireGL V8650

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
2411
550
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
631
637
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
7859
3357
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
7859
3357
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A ATI FireGL V8650
PassMark - G3D Mark 2411 550
PassMark - G2D Mark 631 637
Geekbench - OpenCL 12495
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 49.772
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 757.295
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.67
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 49.875
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 179.567
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 5157
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 5834
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 7859 3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 5157
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 5834
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 7859 3357

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A ATI FireGL V8650

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell TeraScale
Code name GM107 R600
Launch date 13 March 2015 14 May 2007
Place in performance rating 475 406
Type Desktop Workstation
Launch price (MSRP) $2,799

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1085 MHz
Core clock speed 1029 MHz 688 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,389 gflops 440.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 640 320
Texture fill rate 43.4 GTexel / s 11.01 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt
Transistor count 1,870 million 720 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 254 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.6 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 80.19 GB / s 111.1 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 512 Bit
Memory clock speed 5012 MHz 1736 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR4