GeForce GTX 960 and Radeon R5 M230 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R5 M230
GeForce GTX 960
6254
Radeon R5 M230
424
GeForce GTX 960
Radeon R5 M230
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
GM206
Jet / Sun
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
January 2015
January 2014
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCIe 3.0 x8
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Recommended system power (PSU)
400 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pins
-
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
855 MHz
Compute units
-
5
Core clock speed
1127 MHz
855 MHz
CUDA cores
1024
-
Floating-point performance
2,413 gflops
547.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
690 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
320
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
unknown
Texture fill rate
72 billion/sec
17.10
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
16 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
Eyefinity
-
+
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
DirectX® 11
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
Not Listed
OpenGL
4.4
4.4
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
+
-
AppAcceleration
-
+
DualGraphics
-
1
Enduro
-
-
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
HD3D
-
+
PowerTune
-
+
Switchable graphics
-
1
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
+