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GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon R9 M275X

Intro

The GeForce GTX 960M comes with core speeds of 1096 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

Compare that to the Radeon R9 M275X, which comes with a clock speed of 900 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1125 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 640 SPUs, 40 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 M275X 50 Watts
GeForce GTX 960M 65 Watts
Difference: 15 Watts (30%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 M275X should in theory perform a little bit faster than the GeForce GTX 960M in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 M275X 72000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960M 64000 MB/sec
Difference: 8000 (13%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960M will be much (about 22%) more effective at AF than the Radeon R9 M275X. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M 43840 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 M275X 36000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 7840 (22%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 960M is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M 17536 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M275X 14400 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 3136 (22%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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GeForce GTX 960M

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 960M Radeon R9 M275X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year March 12 2015 May 1 2014
Code Name GM107 Venus XTX
Memory 2048 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 1096 MHz 900 MHz
Memory Speed 4000 MHz 4500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 65 watts 50 watts
Bandwidth 64000 MB/sec 72000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 43840 Mtexels/sec 36000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 17536 Mpixels/sec 14400 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 640 640
Texture Mapping Units 40 40
Render Output Units 16 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors (Unknown) million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 960M

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Radeon R9 M275X

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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