NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points
739% significantly better overall score
584 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS
81 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS
68 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

63 FPS
53 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS
55 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
9 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547 points
512% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
1232 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points
334% significantly higher Blender score
139.59 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

51531 points
336% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
11818 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640 points
345% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
12257 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

66552 points
528% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
10582 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points
419% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
11578 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points
583% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
9535 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz
46% significantly higher core clock speed
1097 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz
47% significantly higher boost clock speed
1176 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB
100% significantly more memory
4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s
299% significantly higher memory bandwidth
80.19 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W
65 W
176% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s
489% significantly higher pixel rate
18.82 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s
489% significantly higher texture rate
47.04 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS
489% significantly better floating point performance
1.50 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560
300% significantly more shading units
640

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160
300% significantly more texture mapping units
40

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
300% significantly more render output processors
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

105th of 600
318th of 600

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May
2015 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.5

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