NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX150

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce MX150, 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

128% significantly better overall score

621 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

14 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

10 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

8 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2293 points

131% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

990 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

167.72 points

94% significantly higher Blender score

86.10 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17784 points

81% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

9799 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points

101% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10459 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380 points

126% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

9867 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points

94% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

10175 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points

122% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9382 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz

1469 MHz

30% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

1532 MHz

30% 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

133% significantly higher memory bandwidth

48.06 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

25 W

380% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

37.7 Gigapixels/s

53% significantly higher pixel rate

24.51 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s

105% significantly higher texture rate

36.77 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

166% 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

307th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January

2017 May

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 MX150 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 960 graphics card is better than the GeForce MX150 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce MX150 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 MX150 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce MX150 has a significantly lower TDP at 25 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.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 960 over the GeForce MX150.