NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs ATI Radeon HD 4290 IGP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M and ATI Radeon HD 4290 IGP 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

ATI Radeon HD 4290 IGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 0 month(s) later
2.2x more core clock speed: 1096 MHz vs 498 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
23.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3366 vs 141
5.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3358 vs 568
5.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3358 vs 568

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 March 2015 vs 1 March 2010
Core clock speed	1096 MHz vs 498 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 55 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3366 vs 141
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3358 vs 568
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3358 vs 568

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4290 IGP

Around 80% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 442 vs 245

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	442 vs 245

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4290 IGP

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3366

141

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

245

442

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3358

568

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3358

568

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M	ATI Radeon HD 4290 IGP
PassMark - G3D Mark	3366	141
PassMark - G2D Mark	245	442
Geekbench - OpenCL	10999
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	568
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	5264
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3358	568
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1231

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M	ATI Radeon HD 4290 IGP
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	TeraScale
Code name	GM107	RS880
Launch date	13 March 2015	1 March 2010
Place in performance rating	762	759
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1176 MHz
Core clock speed	1096 MHz	498 MHz
CUDA cores	640
Floating-point performance	1,505 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	640
Texture fill rate	47.04 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt
Transistor count	1,870 million	181 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)	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	80 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz
Memory type	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