NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M 4 GB, 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

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

High-end graphics benchmark

2293 points

27% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1804 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

167.72 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

147.61 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17784 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

13861 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

16496 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

16483 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

15820 points

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

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

242nd of 595

267th of 595

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January

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

GeForce GTX 960 vs GeForce GTX 965M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 960 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 965M 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 965M has a significantly lower TDP at 60 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 965M.