GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon R7 260X

GeForce GTX 960M
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce GTX 960M
Radeon R7 260X
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 260X

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 960M
    100%
  • Radeon R7 260X
    117%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 960M

40 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R7 260X .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 260X

Around 17% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R7 260X

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 260X

The Radeon R7 260X is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 960MRadeon R7 260X
GPU NameGM107 (N16P-GX-A1)vsBonaire (Bonaire XTX)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size148 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors1,870 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders640vs896
Compute Units5vs14
Core clock1097 MHzvs1100 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs40vs56

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 960MRadeon R7 260X
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs1625 MHz
6500 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 960MRadeon R7 260X
TDP75 wattsvs115 watts
Release Date13 Mar 2015vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 960M
    17.55 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 260X
    17.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 960M
    43.90 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 260X
    61.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 960M
    80.20 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 260X
    104.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 960M
    1404.20 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 260X
    1971.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 960M
    5320
  • Radeon R7 260X
    6260

Points (higher is better)