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GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon R9 285

Intro

The GeForce GTX 960M features a GPU clock speed of 1096 MHz, and the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM is set to run at 1000 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 640 Stream Processors, 40 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 285, which has GPU clock speed of 918 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1375 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 1792 Stream Processors, 112 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R9 285 8500 points
GeForce GTX 960M 4350 points
Difference: 4150 (95%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960M 65 Watts
Radeon R9 285 190 Watts
Difference: 125 Watts (192%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 285 should in theory be much superior to the GeForce GTX 960M in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 285 176000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960M 64000 MB/sec
Difference: 112000 (175%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 285 will be a lot (approximately 135%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 960M. (explain)

Radeon R9 285 102816 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960M 43840 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 58976 (135%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R9 285 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R9 285 29376 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960M 17536 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 11840 (68%)

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 285
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year March 12 2015 September 2014
Code Name GM107 Tonga PRO
Memory 2048 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 1096 MHz 918 MHz
Memory Speed 4000 MHz 5500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 65 watts 190 watts
Bandwidth 64000 MB/sec 176000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 43840 Mtexels/sec 102816 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 17536 Mpixels/sec 29376 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 640 1792
Texture Mapping Units 40 112
Render Output Units 16 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors (Unknown) million 5000 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.4

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 960M

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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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