AMD Cypress
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
AMD Cypress
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Cypress and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

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Place in performance rating
337
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Value for money (0-100)
3.43
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Maxwell
Cypress
Code name
GM107
Desktop
Type
Laptop
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Release date
12 March 2015 (6 years ago)
$12.72
Price now
$799
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Value for money
2.15
Cypress
GPU code name
N16P-GX
Desktop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Cypress and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

1600
Pipelines
640
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Core clock speed
1096 MHz
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Boost Clock
1176 MHz
2,154 million
Transistor count
1,870 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
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Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
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Texture fill rate
47.04
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Floating-point performance
1,505 gflops
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CUDA cores
640
1600
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
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Boost clock speed
1202 MHz
2,154 million
Number of transistors
1,870 million
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Thermal design power (TDP)
75 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Cypress and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M.

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Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
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Laptop size
medium sized
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SLI options
+
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Bus support
PCI Express 3.0

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Cypress and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M can be seen in this section.

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Memory type
GDDR5
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Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
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Memory bus width
128 Bit
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Memory clock speed
2500 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
80 GB/s
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Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Cypress and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M, the size and number of monitors.

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Display Connectors
No outputs
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HDMI
+
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VGA аnalog display support
+
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DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
+

Technologies

The difference between AMD Cypress and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M is the additional functionality.

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GPU Boost
2.0
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CUDA
+
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GeForce Experience
+
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Optimus
+
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Ansel
+
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GameStream
+
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GeForce ShadowPlay
+
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GameWorks
+
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BatteryBoost
+
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H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
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Adaptive VSync
+
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DSR
+

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Cypress and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.5
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Vulkan
1.1.126
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Shader Model
5.1
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OpenCL
1.2

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Cypress and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Cypress or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Cypress
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Cypress
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Cypress
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Cypress
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Cypress
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Cypress

Cheaper ($12.72 vs $799)

More pipelines (1600 vs 640)

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

16.18% faster in synthetic tests

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 40 nm)

So, AMD Cypress or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M .

AMD Cypress versus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M performance benchmarks comparison

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