Comparison of Radeon R9 255 and GeForce GTX 960A

Attribute	GeForce GTX 960A ×	Radeon R9 255 ×
GPU
Release year (year)	2015	2013
GPU brand	Nvidia	AMD
GPU name	GM107	Cape Verde
Market	Laptop	Desktop
Clock speed (MHz)	1,029	900
Turbo clock speed (MHz)	1,085	930
Is dual GPU	-	-
Model	GeForce GTX 960A	Radeon R9 255
Memory
Memory (MB)	2,048	2,048
Memory bandwidth (GB/s)	80.2	73.6
Memory bus (bit)	128	128
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Memory clock speed (MHz)	1,253	1,150
Effective memory clock speed (MHz)	5,012	4,600
Noise and power
TDP (W)	75	65
Raw performance
Pixel rate (GPixel/s)	16.46	14.88
Render output processors	16	16
Texture mapping units	40	32
Shading units	640	512
Floating-point performance (GFLOPS)	1,317	952
Compute units	-	8
Texture rate (GTexel/s)	41.2	29.76
Benchmarks
Particle simulation (mInteraction/s)	608.59	-
T-Rex (Compubench 1.5) (frames/s)	3.67	-
Video composition (frames/s)	49.88	-
PassMark	2,151	1,765
PassMark Direct Compute	-	1,142
Cloud Gate Factor	-	14.43
Face detection (mPixels/s)	49.77	-
Bitcoin mining (mHash/s)	179.57	-
Sky Diver Factor	-	189.14
Fire Strike Factor	-	18.88
Ocean surface simulation (frames/s)	757.3	-