NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2058 points

247% significantly better overall score

593 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

42 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

29 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

9 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

284.61 points

103% significantly higher Blender score

139.59 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31922 points

170% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

11818 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33958 points

177% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

12257 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

33939 points

220% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10582 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33375 points

188% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11578 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32433 points

240% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9535 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

37% slightly higher core clock speed

1097 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1708 MHz

45% significantly higher boost clock speed

1176 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s

139% significantly higher memory bandwidth

80.19 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

65 W

84% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

81.98 Gigapixels/s

335% significantly higher pixel rate

18.82 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

123 Gigatexels/s

161% significantly higher texture rate

47.04 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.94 TFLOPS

161% significantly better floating point performance

1.50 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1152

79% significantly more shading units

640

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

79% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

206th of 586

309th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

2015 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB vs GeForce GTX 960M comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 960M in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 960M has a significantly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is faster than the GeForce GTX 960M.