
GeForce GTS 160M and Radeon R5 (Carrizo) - video card comparison
GeForce GTS 160M
Radeon R5 (Carrizo)
Architecture
G9x (2007−2010)
GCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)
GPU code name
N10E-GS1
Carrizo
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2009
June 2015
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
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Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
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SLI options
2-way
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MXM Type
MXM 3.0 Type-B
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Boost clock speed
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800 MHz
Core clock speed
600 MHz
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CUDA cores
64
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Floating-point performance
192 gflops
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Gigaflops
288
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Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
2410 Million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
256
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
12-35 Watt
Texture fill rate
19 billion/sec
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Memory type
GDDR3
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Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
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Memory bus width
256 Bit
64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 800 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
51 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
VGADisplayPortDual Link DVIHDMILVDSSingle Link DVI
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HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
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Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
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DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (FL 12_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
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OpenGL
2.1
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Shader Model
4.0
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Vulkan
N/A
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Power management
8.0
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