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GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon R9 M280X

Intro

The GeForce GTX 960M makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1096 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this particular card. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 M280X, which has core clock speeds of 900 MHz on the GPU, and 1375 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960M 65 Watts
Radeon R9 M280X 75 Watts
Difference: 10 Watts (15%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 M280X is 38% quicker than the GeForce GTX 960M overall, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 M280X 88000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960M 64000 MB/sec
Difference: 24000 (38%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M280X should be a small bit (about 15%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 960M. (explain)

Radeon R9 M280X 50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960M 43840 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 6560 (15%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 960M is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M 17536 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M280X 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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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 960M Radeon R9 M280X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year March 12 2015 Feb 9 2015
Code Name GM107 Saturn XT
Memory 2048 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 1096 MHz 900 MHz
Memory Speed 4000 MHz 5500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 65 watts 75 watts
Bandwidth 64000 MB/sec 88000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 43840 Mtexels/sec 50400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 17536 Mpixels/sec 14400 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 640 896
Texture Mapping Units 40 56
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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 960M

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Radeon R9 M280X

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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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