NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs AMD PlayStation 4 GPU

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M and AMD PlayStation 4 GPU videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

AMD PlayStation 4 GPU

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 37% higher core clock speed: 1096 MHz vs 800 MHz

Launch date	13 March 2015 vs 24 November 2013
Core clock speed	1096 MHz vs 800 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD PlayStation 4 GPU

Around 22% higher texture fill rate: 57.6 GTexel / s vs 47.04 GTexel / s
Around 80% higher pipelines: 1152 vs 640
Around 22% better floating-point performance: 1,843 gflops vs 1,505 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
2.2x more memory clock speed: 5500 MHz vs 2500 MHz

Texture fill rate	57.6 GTexel / s vs 47.04 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1152 vs 640
Floating-point performance	1,843 gflops vs 1,505 gflops
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed	5500 MHz vs 2500 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
GPU 2: AMD PlayStation 4 GPU

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M	AMD PlayStation 4 GPU
PassMark - G3D Mark	3366
PassMark - G2D Mark	245
Geekbench - OpenCL	10985
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	54.294
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	795.325
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	3.692
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	51.794
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	174.513
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	5264
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	5264
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1231

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M	AMD PlayStation 4 GPU
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	GCN 1.0
Code name	GM107	Liverpool
Launch date	13 March 2015	24 November 2013
Place in performance rating	735	not rated
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1176 MHz
Core clock speed	1096 MHz	800 MHz
CUDA cores	640
Floating-point performance	1,505 gflops	1,843 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	640	1152
Texture fill rate	47.04 GTexel / s	57.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	1,870 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support	1
HDMI
VGA аnalog display support	1
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	IGP
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11.1*
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	80 GB / s	176.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz	5500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Technologies
Adaptive VSync
Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
DSR
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI