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GeForce GTX 960M and Radeon HD 5870 - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon HD 5870

GeForce GTX 960M
3496
Radeon HD 5870
2282

GeForce GTX 960M

Radeon HD 5870


Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name
N16P-GX
Cypress

Market segment
Laptop
Desktop

Release date
March 2015
September 2009

Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-

Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors
-
2x 6-pin

SLI options
+
-

Boost clock speed
1202 MHz
-

Core clock speed
1096 MHz
850 MHz

CUDA cores
640
-

Floating-point performance
1,505 gflops
2,720.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm

Number of transistors
1,870 million
2,154 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
1600

Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
188 Watt

Texture fill rate
47.04
68.00

Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1 GB

Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit

Memory clock speed
2500 MHz
4800 MHz

Memory bandwidth
80 GB/s
153.6 GB/s

Shared memory
-
-

Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

VGA аnalog display support
+
-

DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
+
-

HDMI
+
+

DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)

CUDA
+
-

OpenCL
1.2
1.2

OpenGL
4.5
4.4

Shader Model
5.1
5.0

Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A

Ansel
+
-

BatteryBoost
+
-

GameStream
+
-

GameWorks
+
-

GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-

GPU Boost
2.0
-

H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-

Optimus
+
-