GeForce GTX 960 and Radeon R9 M485X - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon R9 M485X
GeForce GTX 960
6254
Radeon R9 M485X
3770
GeForce GTX 960
Radeon R9 M485X
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN 3 (2014−2016)
GPU code name
GM206
Amethyst
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
January 2015
May 2016
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Recommended system power (PSU)
400 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pins
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1127 MHz
723 MHz
CUDA cores
1024
-
Floating-point performance
2,413 gflops
2,961 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
5,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
250 Watt
Texture fill rate
72 billion/sec
92.54
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
160.0 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)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.3
Vulkan
+
1.2.131
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-