NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce 820M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 820M, 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

1419 points
1425% significantly better overall score
93 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS
27 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
3 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS
20 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS
18 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS
16 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points
797% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
2347 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points
607% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
2798 points

Specifications

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

112.2 GB/s
289% significantly higher memory bandwidth
28.83 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W
45 W
166% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

37.7 Gigapixels/s
481% significantly higher pixel rate
6.48 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s
190% significantly higher texture rate
25.92 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024
166% significantly more shading units
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

64
100% significantly more texture mapping units
32

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
100% significantly more render output processors
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 586
508th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January
2015 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 960 vs GeForce 820M specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 960 beats the GeForce 820M in gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce 820M has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 960 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 960 is faster than the GeForce 820M.

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