GeForce GTX 960 and Radeon R9 M265X - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R9 M265X
GeForce GTX 960
6254
Radeon R9 M265X
1172
GeForce GTX 960
Radeon R9 M265X
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
GM206
Venus Pro
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
January 2015
January 2014
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
400 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pins
-
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
625 MHz
Compute units
-
10
Core clock speed
1127 MHz
625 MHz
CUDA cores
1024
-
Floating-point performance
2,413 gflops
800.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
1,500 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
640
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
72 billion/sec
25.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
1125 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
72 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
-
1
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
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
HD3D
-
+
PowerTune
-
+
Switchable graphics
-
1
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
+