NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX130

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce MX130, 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
255% significantly better overall score
399 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS
22 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
8 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS
16 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
6 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS
14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
6 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS
12 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
5 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

167.72 points
152% significantly higher Blender score
66.46 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17784 points
148% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
7156 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points
192% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
7199 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380 points
243% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
6515 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points
194% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
6717 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points
251% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
5938 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz
1% slightly higher core clock speed
1109 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz
1189 MHz
0.93% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.2 GB/s
179% significantly higher memory bandwidth
40.1 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W
30 W
300% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

37.7 Gigapixels/s
296% significantly higher pixel rate
9.51 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s
164% significantly higher texture rate
28.54 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024
166% significantly more shading units
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

64
166% significantly more texture mapping units
24

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
300% significantly more render output processors
8

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 586
353rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January
2017 November

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
4.6

GeForce GTX 960 vs GeForce MX130 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 960 graphics card is better than the GeForce MX130 in our tests.

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. Despite this, the GeForce MX130 has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce MX130 has a significantly lower TDP at 30 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 960 at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 960 over the GeForce MX130.

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