NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 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

2077 points

250% significantly better overall score

593 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

9 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

195% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1232 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

165% significantly higher Blender score

139.59 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31129 points

163% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

11818 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

164% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

12257 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

197% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10582 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

179% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11578 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

224% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9535 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

55% significantly higher core clock speed

1097 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

49% significantly more memory

4 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

65 W

84% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

310th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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

4.5

GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce GTX 960M specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1060 beats the GeForce GTX 960M in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1060 has a significantly 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 1060 has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 960M has a significantly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 at 120 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 is better than the GeForce GTX 960M.