Radeon R9 M470 vs GeForce GTX 960M

Radeon R9 M470
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 15 May 2016
Radeon R9 M470
GeForce GTX 960M
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce GTX 960M

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 M470

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 960M

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R9 M470GeForce GTX 960M
GPU NameStrato (Strato PRO)vsGM107 (N16P-GX-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size160 mm²vs148 mm²
Transistors2,080 millionvs1,870 million
Shaders768vs640
Compute Units12vs5
Core clock900 MHzvs1097 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs48vs40

Memory Configuration

Radeon R9 M470GeForce GTX 960M
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R9 M470GeForce GTX 960M
TDP0 wattsvs75 watts
Release Date15 May 2016vs13 Mar 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R9 M470
    16.00 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 960M
    17.55 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R9 M470
    48.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 960M
    43.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R9 M470
    96.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 960M
    80.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R9 M470
    1536.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 960M
    1404.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

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