GeForce GTX 960M and Radeon R9 M280X - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon R9 M280X
GeForce GTX 960M
3496
Radeon R9 M280X
837
GeForce GTX 960M
Radeon R9 M280X
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
N16P-GX
Saturn XT
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2015
February 2015
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
Not Listed
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1202 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1096 MHz
900 MHz
CUDA cores
640
-
Floating-point performance
1,505 gflops
1,792 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,870 million
2,080 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
896
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
47.04
61.60
Memory type
GDDR5
Not Listed
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
0 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
Not Listed
Memory clock speed
2500 MHz
-
Memory bandwidth
80 GB/s
96 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
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
6.3
Vulkan
1.1.126
-
Ansel
+
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
BatteryBoost
+
-
DualGraphics
-
1
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-
HD3D
-
+
Optimus
+
-
PowerTune
-
+
Switchable graphics
-
1
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
+