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    GeForce GTX 960M vs Mobility Radeon HD 4870

    If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between GeForce GTX 960M and Mobility Radeon HD 4870, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the GeForce GTX 960M stacks up against Mobility Radeon HD 4870, check out specs charts below.
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    GeForce GTX 960M and Mobility Radeon HD 4870 are Laptop Graphics Cards

    Note: GeForce GTX 960M and Mobility Radeon HD 4870 are only used in laptop graphics. They have lower GPU clock speed compared to the desktop variant, which results in lower power consumption, but also 10-30% lower gaming performance. Check available laptop models with GeForce GTX 960M or Mobility Radeon HD 4870 here:

    GeForce GTX 960M Laptops
    Mobility Radeon HD 4870 Laptops

    Main Specs

      GeForce GTX 960M Mobility Radeon HD 4870
    Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt
    Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 2.0 x16
    Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
    Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 1 GB
    Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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    • GeForce GTX 960M is connected by MXM-B (3.0), and Mobility Radeon HD 4870 uses PCIe 2.0 x16 interface.
    • GeForce GTX 960M has 3 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 4870.
    • Both cards are used in Laptops.
    • GeForce GTX 960M is build with Maxwell architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 4870 - with Terascale 1.
    • Core clock speed of GeForce GTX 960M is 546 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 4870.
    • GeForce GTX 960M is manufactured by 28 nm process technology, and Mobility Radeon HD 4870 - by 55 nm process technology.
    • Memory clock speed of GeForce GTX 960M is 1612 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 4870.

    Game benchmarks

    high / 1080p 18−20 7−8
    ultra / 1080p 10−11 4−5
    QHD / 1440p 4−5 0−1
    4K / 2160p 4−5 −
    low / 720p 35−40 16−18
    medium / 1080p 21−24 8−9
    The average gaming FPS of GeForce GTX 960M in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 144% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 4870.

    Full Specs

      GeForce GTX 960M Mobility Radeon HD 4870
    Architecture Maxwell Terascale 1
    Code name N16P-GX M98-XT
    Type Laptop Laptop
    Release date 12 March 2015 9 January 2009
    Pipelines 640 800
    Core clock speed 1096 MHz 550 MHz
    Boost Clock 1202 MHz
    Transistor count 1,870 million 956 million
    Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 55 nm
    Texture fill rate 47.04 22.00
    Floating-point performance 1,505 gflops 880.0 gflops
    Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
    Memory clock speed 2500 MHz 888 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 80 GB/s 56.83 GB/s
    Shared memory - -
    DirectX 12 (11_0) 10.1 (10_1)
    Shader Model 5.1 4.1
    OpenGL 4.5 3.3
    OpenCL 1.2 1.1
    Vulkan 1.1.126 N/A
    CUDA +
    CUDA cores 640
    Bus support PCI Express 3.0
    SLI options +
    HDMI +
    Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 175 Mh/s
    Laptop size medium sized large
    DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support +
    H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder +
    Optimus +
    GameStream +
    GeForce ShadowPlay +
    GPU Boost 2.0
    GameWorks +
    BatteryBoost +
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