NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Mar 2015
Aug 2012
Generation
GeForce 900M
Northern Islands
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1097 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1176 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
1000 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
4GB
1024MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
80.19GB/s
128.0GB/s

Render Config

Shading Units
640
1440
TMUs
40
72
ROPs
16
32
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SMM)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
-
18

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
18.82 GPixel/s
23.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
47.04 GTexel/s
52.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.505 TFLOPS
2.088 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
47.04 GFLOPS
417.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GM107
Cypress
GPU Variant
N16P-GX-A1
Cypress PRO(215-0735043)
Architecture
Maxwell
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
1.87 billion
2.154 billion
Die Size
148 mm²
334 mm²

Board Design

TDP
75W
151W
Outputs
No outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1
Suggested PSU
-
450 W
Power Connectors
-
2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
N/A
CUDA
5.0
-
Shader Model
5.1
5.0

📊 Benchmark

Blender
185
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