NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3670

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3670 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) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 51% higher core clock speed: 1029 MHz vs 680 MHz
  • 8x more texture fill rate: 43.4 GTexel / s vs 5.44 GTexel / s
  • 5.3x more pipelines: 640 vs 120
  • 8.5x better floating-point performance: 1,389 gflops vs 163.2 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
  • 3.1x more memory clock speed: 5012 MHz vs 1600 MHz
  • 10.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2411 vs 232
  • Around 91% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 631 vs 331
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 March 2015 vs 7 January 2008
Core clock speed 1029 MHz vs 680 MHz
Texture fill rate 43.4 GTexel / s vs 5.44 GTexel / s
Pipelines 640 vs 120
Floating-point performance 1,389 gflops vs 163.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 5012 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 2411 vs 232
PassMark - G2D Mark 631 vs 331

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3670

  • 2.5x lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 75 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 30 Watt vs 75 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3670

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
2411
232
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
631
331
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3670
PassMark - G3D Mark 2411 232
PassMark - G2D Mark 631 331
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
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 5157
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 5834
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 7859

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3670

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell TeraScale
Code name GM107 M86
Launch date 13 March 2015 7 January 2008
Place in performance rating 475 478
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1085 MHz
Core clock speed 1029 MHz 680 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,389 gflops 163.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 640 120
Texture fill rate 43.4 GTexel / s 5.44 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt 30 Watt
Transistor count 1,870 million 378 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.1
OpenGL 4.6 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 80.19 GB / s 25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 5012 MHz 1600 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR2 / GDDR3 / GDDR4
Shared memory 0