NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M 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

107% significantly better overall score

1001 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

24 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

17 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

16 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

15 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

101% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1804 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

151% significantly higher Blender score

147.61 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31129 points

124% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

13861 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

16496 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

16483 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

104% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

15820 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16599 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

80% significantly higher core clock speed

944 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

60 W

100% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

263rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January

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 965M comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 965M in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 1060 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, 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 965M has a significantly lower TDP at 60 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 at 120 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1060 is faster than the GeForce GTX 965M.