Radeon E8950 and GeForce GTX 960M - video card comparison
Radeon E8950
GeForce GTX 960M
Architecture
GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Amethyst
N16P-GX
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
September 2015
March 2015
Bus support
-
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
1202 MHz
Core clock speed
735 MHz
1096 MHz
CUDA cores
-
640
Floating-point performance
4,096 gflops
1,505 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
5,000 million
1,870 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
640
Power consumption (TDP)
95 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
128.0
47.04
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
2500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.0 GB/s
80 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
VGA аnalog display support
-
+
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
-
+
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
6.3
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.1.126
Ansel
-
+
BatteryBoost
-
+
GameStream
-
+
GameWorks
-
+
GeForce ShadowPlay
-
+
GPU Boost
-
2.0
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
-
+
Optimus
-
+