GeForce GTX 960M and Radeon HD 6970M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon HD 6970M
GeForce GTX 960M
3496
Radeon HD 6970M
2338
GeForce GTX 960M
Radeon HD 6970M
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
N16P-GX
Blackcomb XT
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2015
January 2011
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1202 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1096 MHz
680 MHz
CUDA cores
640
-
Floating-point performance
1,505 gflops
1,305.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,870 million
1,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
960
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
75-100 Watt
Texture fill rate
47.04
32.64
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
2500 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
80 GB/s
115.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
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
+
-