NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 560v

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 560v 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).

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 560v

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 87% higher core clock speed: 1029 MHz vs 550 MHz
2.5x more texture fill rate: 43.4 GTexel / s vs 17.6 GTexel / s
2x more pipelines: 640 vs 320
3.9x better floating-point performance: 1,389 gflops vs 352.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
3.1x more memory clock speed: 5012 MHz vs 1600 MHz
7.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2411 vs 318
Around 72% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 631 vs 366

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 March 2015 vs 5 May 2010
Core clock speed	1029 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate	43.4 GTexel / s vs 17.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	640 vs 320
Floating-point performance	1,389 gflops vs 352.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2411 vs 318
PassMark - G2D Mark	631 vs 366

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 560v

5x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 75 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 75 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 560v

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2411

318

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

631

366

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 560v
PassMark - G3D Mark	2411	318
PassMark - G2D Mark	631	366
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 560v
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	TeraScale
Code name	GM107	M96
Launch date	13 March 2015	5 May 2010
Place in performance rating	475	424
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1085 MHz
Core clock speed	1029 MHz	550 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,389 gflops	352.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	640	320
Texture fill rate	43.4 GTexel / s	17.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	15 Watt
Transistor count	1,870 million	514 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	1 GB
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	GDDR3, DDR3, DDR2
Shared memory		0