GeForce GTX 960M and Radeon R5 M230 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon R5 M230
GeForce GTX 960M
3496
Radeon R5 M230
424
GeForce GTX 960M
Radeon R5 M230
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
N16P-GX
Jet / Sun
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2015
January 2014
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCIe 3.0 x8
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x8
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1202 MHz
855 MHz
Compute units
-
5
Core clock speed
1096 MHz
855 MHz
CUDA cores
640
-
Floating-point performance
1,505 gflops
547.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,870 million
690 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
320
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
unknown
Texture fill rate
47.04
17.10
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
2500 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
80 GB/s
16 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
Eyefinity
-
+
VGA аnalog display support
+
-
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
DirectX® 11
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
Not Listed
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.1.126
-
Ansel
+
-
AppAcceleration
-
+
BatteryBoost
+
-
DualGraphics
-
1
Enduro
-
-
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-
HD3D
-
+
Optimus
+
-
PowerTune
-
+
Switchable graphics
-
1
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
+