NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs ATI Radeon X600 SE

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M and ATI Radeon X600 SE 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 X600 SE

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 6 month(s) later
3.4x more core clock speed: 1096 MHz vs 325 MHz
36.2x more texture fill rate: 47.04 GTexel / s vs 1.3 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 110 nm
32x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 128 MB
5x more memory clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 500 MHz
68.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3370 vs 49
Around 7% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 245 vs 229

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 March 2015 vs 1 September 2004
Core clock speed	1096 MHz vs 325 MHz
Texture fill rate	47.04 GTexel / s vs 1.3 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3370 vs 49
PassMark - G2D Mark	245 vs 229

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X600 SE

2.1x lower typical power consumption: 36 Watt vs 75 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	36 Watt vs 75 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X600 SE

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3370

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

245

229

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M	ATI Radeon X600 SE
PassMark - G3D Mark	3370	49
PassMark - G2D Mark	245	229
Geekbench - OpenCL	10976
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	ATI Radeon X600 SE
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	Rage 9
Code name	GM107	RV370
Launch date	13 March 2015	1 September 2004
Place in performance rating	765	762
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1176 MHz
Core clock speed	1096 MHz	325 MHz
CUDA cores	640
Floating-point performance	1,505 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	640
Texture fill rate	47.04 GTexel / s	1.3 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	36 Watt
Transistor count	1,870 million	107 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x S-Video
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
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0
OpenGL	4.5	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	80 GB / s	4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR
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