Radeon R7 M440 vs GeForce GTX 960

Radeon R7 M440
Memory: 4096Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 15 May 2016
Radeon R7 M440
GeForce GTX 960
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Jan 2015
GeForce GTX 960

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 M440

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 960

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 960

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 960

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R7 M440GeForce GTX 960
GPU NameJet (Jet PRO)vsGM206 (GM206-300-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size77 mm²vs228 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs2,940 million
Shaders320vs1024
Compute Units5vs8
Core clock780 MHzvs1127 MHz
ROPs8vs32
TMUs20vs64

Memory Configuration

Radeon R7 M440GeForce GTX 960
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
vs1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R7 M440GeForce GTX 960
TDP0 wattsvs120 watts
Release Date15 May 2016vs22 Jan 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R7 M440
    6.84 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 960
    36.10 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R7 M440
    17.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 960
    72.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R7 M440
    16.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 960
    112.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R7 M440
    547.20 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 960
    2308.10 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better