GeForce GTX 960 and Radeon R7 M260 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R7 M260
GeForce GTX 960
6254
Radeon R7 M260
511
GeForce GTX 960
Radeon R7 M260
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
GM206
Opal Pro / Mars
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
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
980 MHz
Compute units
-
6
Core clock speed
1127 MHz
715 MHz
CUDA cores
1024
-
Floating-point performance
2,413 gflops
721.9 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
1,550 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
384
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
72 billion/sec
23.52
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
DirectX® 12
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.3
Shader Model
6.4
6.3
Vulkan
+
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
DualGraphics
-
1
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
HD3D
-
+
PowerTune
-
+
Switchable graphics
-
1
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
+