NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1419 points
41% slightly better overall score
1001 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS
5 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
24 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS
4 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
17 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS
3 FPS slightly higher City frame rate
16 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS
3 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
15 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2293 points
27% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
1804 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

167.72 points
13% slightly higher Blender score
147.61 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17784 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
13861 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
16496 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
16483 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
15820 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
16599 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz
19% slightly higher core clock speed
944 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz
2% slightly higher boost clock speed
1150 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB
Identical
4 GiB

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
60 W
100% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

37.7 Gigapixels/s
2% slightly higher pixel rate
36.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s
2% slightly higher texture rate
73.6 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.41 TFLOPS
2% slightly better floating point performance
2.36 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024
Identical
1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

64
Identical
64

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
Identical
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

242nd of 592
266th of 592

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January
2015 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.5

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