GeForce GTX 960M and Radeon HD 8870M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon HD 8870M
GeForce GTX 960M
3496
Radeon HD 8870M
1687
GeForce GTX 960M
Radeon HD 8870M
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
N16P-GX
Venus
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2015
December 2012
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1202 MHz
775 MHz
Core clock speed
1096 MHz
725 MHz
CUDA cores
640
-
Floating-point performance
1,505 gflops
992.0 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
-
Texture fill rate
47.04
31.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5, DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
2500 MHz
4500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
80 GB/s
72 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
+
-