AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2012
Mar 2015
Generation
Southern Islands
GeForce 900M
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1253 MHz
Base Clock
-
1097 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1176 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
80.19GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
-
Shading Units
1280
640
TMUs
80
40
ROPs
32
16
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
18.82 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
80.00 GTexel/s
47.04 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.560 TFLOPS
1.505 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
160.0 GFLOPS
47.04 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Pitcairn
GM107
GPU Variant
Pitcairn XT(215-0828047)
N16P-GX-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Maxwell
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
1.87 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
148 mm²
Board Design
TDP
175W
75W
Suggested PSU
450 W
-
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
-
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
CUDA
-
5.0
📊 Benchmark
Blender
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185