NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

Price

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$ 255.00

$ 10.00 slightly less expensive

$ 265.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1038 points

1419 points

36% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

22 FPS

29 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

16 FPS

22 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS

20 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

13 FPS

17 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1900 points

2293 points

20% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.99 points

167.72 points

36% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

15998 points

17784 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7172 points

8773 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18233 points

21072 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18345 points

22380 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7172 points

8773 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16999 points

19796 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16578 points

20845 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1024 MHz

1127 MHz

10% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1188 MHz

0.85% slightly higher boost clock speed

1178 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

4 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

105.8 GB/s

112.2 GB/s

6% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

33% slightly lower TDP

120 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

38.02 Gigapixels/s

0.85% slightly higher pixel rate

37.7 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

57.02 Gigatexels/s

75.39 Gigatexels/s

32% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.82 TFLOPS

2.41 TFLOPS

32% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

1024

33% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

33% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

261st of 586

239th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

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 950 vs GeForce GTX 960 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 960 beats the GeForce GTX 950 in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 960 has a slightly 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. Despite this, the GeForce GTX 950 has a slightly 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 960 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 950 has a slightly lower TDP at 90 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 960 at 120 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 960 over the GeForce GTX 950.