NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M 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

575 points

593 points

3% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

11 FPS

13 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

11 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS

Identical

10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS

Identical

9 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

101.04 points

139.59 points

38% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

9777 points

11818 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10170 points

12257 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9069 points

10582 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9820 points

11578 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8825 points

9535 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

993 MHz

1097 MHz

10% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1124 MHz

1176 MHz

4% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

28.8 GB/s

80.19 GB/s

178% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

65 W

15% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

17.98 Gigapixels/s

18.82 Gigapixels/s

4% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

44.96 Gigatexels/s

47.04 Gigatexels/s

4% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

Identical

640

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

316th 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

DDR3

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce GTX 950M vs GeForce GTX 960M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 960M GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 950M in gaming.

The GeForce GTX 960M 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. In addition, the GeForce GTX 960M also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 960M has a slightly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 950M at 75 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

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