NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M, 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

146% significantly better overall score

575 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

11 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

9 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

167.72 points

65% significantly higher Blender score

101.04 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17784 points

81% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

9777 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points

107% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10170 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380 points

146% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

9069 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points

101% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9820 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points

136% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

8825 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz

13% slightly higher core clock speed

993 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

4% slightly higher boost clock speed

1124 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

289% significantly higher memory bandwidth

28.8 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

109% significantly higher pixel rate

17.98 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s

67% significantly higher texture rate

44.96 Gigatexels/s

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

315th 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

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 960 vs GeForce GTX 950M specs and performance

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

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 960 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. 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 950M has a significantly lower TDP at 75 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 960 is faster than the GeForce GTX 950M.