GeForce GTX 960M and Radeon HD 7870M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon HD 7870M
GeForce GTX 960M
3496
Radeon HD 7870M
1552
GeForce GTX 960M
Radeon HD 7870M
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
N16P-GX
Heathrow XT
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2015
April 2012
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1202 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1096 MHz
800 MHz
CUDA cores
640
-
Floating-point performance
1,505 gflops
1,024 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,870 million
1,500 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
640
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
45 Watt
Texture fill rate
47.04
32.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
2500 MHz
4000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
80 GB/s
64 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
VGA аnalog display support
+
-
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2.131
Ansel
+
-
BatteryBoost
+
-
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-
Optimus
+
-