NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M, 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

142% significantly better overall score

584 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

8 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2293 points

98% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1155 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

167.72 points

63% significantly higher Blender score

102.79 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17784 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

11144 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

8773 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

4900 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

11550 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380 points

110% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10627 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

8773 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

4900 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11127 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points

117% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9592 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz

10% slightly higher core clock speed

1020 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

8% slightly higher boost clock speed

1085 MHz

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

39% slightly higher memory bandwidth

80.19 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

75 W

60% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

37.7 Gigapixels/s

117% significantly higher pixel rate

17.36 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s

73% significantly higher texture rate

43.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.41 TFLOPS

14% slightly better floating point performance

2.11 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

60% significantly more shading units

640

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

60% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 586

312th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January

2015 February

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

4.6

GeForce GTX 960 vs GeForce GTX 860M comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 960 beats the GeForce GTX 860M in gaming performance.

Our database shows that 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. In addition, the GeForce GTX 960 also 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.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 860M has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 960 at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 960 is faster than the GeForce GTX 860M.