NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 630

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 630, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 265.00
$ 149.95
$ 115.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1419 points
1072% significantly better overall score
121 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 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17784 points
667% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
2317 points
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

8773 points
608% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
1239 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points
693% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
2654 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380 points
778% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
2548 points
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

8773 points
558% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
1332 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points
629% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
2712 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points
689% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
2641 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
28.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W
65 W
84% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

37.7 Gigapixels/s
1063% significantly higher pixel rate
3.24 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s
481% significantly higher texture rate
12.96 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024
966% significantly more shading units
96

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

64
300% significantly more texture mapping units
16

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
700% significantly more render output processors
4

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 586
488th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January
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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 GT 630 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 960 graphics card is better than the GeForce GT 630 in our tests.

In addition, the GeForce GT 630 has a significantly lower TDP at 65 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 GT 630.

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