Radeon RX 570 vs GeForce GTX 960M

Radeon RX 570
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2017
Radeon RX 570
GeForce GTX 960M
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce GTX 960M

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 570

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

45 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon RX 570 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 570

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 570

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 570GeForce GTX 960M
GPU NameEllesmere (Ellesmere PRO)vsGM107 (N16P-GX-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size232 mm²vs148 mm²
Transistors5,700 millionvs1,870 million
Shaders2048vs640
Compute Units32vs5
Core clock926 MHzvs1097 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs128vs40

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 570GeForce GTX 960M
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1650 MHz
6600 MHz effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 570GeForce GTX 960M
TDP120 wattsvs75 watts
Release Date1 Apr 2017vs13 Mar 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 570
    38.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 960M
    17.55 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 570
    154.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 960M
    43.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 570
    211.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 960M
    80.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 570
    4940.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 960M
    1404.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better