Radeon R9 M290X vs GeForce GTX 960M
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon R9 M290X |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 960M |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon R9 M290X
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon R9 M290X | | GeForce GTX 960M | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Neptune (Neptune XT) | vs | GM107 (N16P-GX-A1) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 212 mm² | vs | 148 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,800 million | vs | 1,870 million |
| Shaders | 1280 | vs | 640 |
| Compute Units | 20 | vs | 5 |
| Core clock | 850 MHz | vs | 1097 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 80 | vs | 40 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon R9 M290X | | GeForce GTX 960M | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective | vs | 1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 4096 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon R9 M290X | | GeForce GTX 960M | |
|---|
| TDP | 100 watts | vs | 75 watts |
| Release Date | 9 Jan 2014 | vs | 13 Mar 2015 |
Radeon R9 M290X
28.80 GP/s
GeForce GTX 960M
17.55 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon R9 M290X
72.00 GT/s
GeForce GTX 960M
43.90 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon R9 M290X
153.60 GB/s
GeForce GTX 960M
80.20 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon R9 M290X
2304.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 960M
1404.20 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better