NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs AMD Radeon R9 M470

What is the difference between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M and AMD Radeon R9 M470. Find out which graphics card has better performance.

Graphics Processor (GPU)

GM107GPU NameEmerald
N16P-GX-A1Model numberEmerald PRO
MaxwellArchitectureGCN 2.0
TSMCFoundryTSMC
28 nmProcess Size28 nm
1,870 millionTransistors2,080 million
148 mm²Die Size160 mm²

Graphics Card

Mar 13th, 2015Release DateMay 15th, 2016
GeForce 900MFamilyCrystal System
(R9 M400)
ActiveProductionActive
GeForce 800MPredecessorSolar System
MXM-B (3.0)Bus InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16

Memory

4 GBMemory Size4 GB
GDDR5Memory TypeGDDR5
128 bitMemory Bus128 bit
80.19 GB/sBandwidth96.00 GB/s

Performance

18.82 GPixel/sPixel fillrate16.00 GPixel/s
47.04 GTexel/sTexture fillrate48.00 GTexel/s
1.505 TFLOPSFP32 (float) performance1.536 TFLOPS
47.04 GFLOPS (1:32)FP64 (double) performance96.00 GFLOPS (1:16)

Clock Speeds

1097 MHzBase Clock900 MHz
1176 MHzBoost Clock1000 MHz
1253 MHz
5 Gbps effective
Memory Clock1500 MHz
6 Gbps effective

Render Config

640Shading Units768
40TMUs48
16ROPs16
64 KB (per SMM)L1 Cache16 KB (per CU)
2 MBL2 Cache256 KB

Board Design

75 WThermal design power (TDP)unknown
No outputsDisplay ConnectorsNo outputs

API support

12 (11_0)DirectX12 (12_0)
4.6OpenGL4.6
3.0OpenCL2.0
1.1Vulkan1.2
5.1Shader Model6.3