NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M Benchmark

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M GPU benchmark, specs and release date - 4 GB NVIDIA Graphics card rating. How good is the GeForce GTX 960M for gaming?

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GPU Benchmark Score

6 %

Bad score from 4 samples
Medium uncertainty

Performance

Bad

Ranking

240th of 531

Popularity

108th of 531

Samples

4 benchmarks

GPU benchmarks

Here are the performance results of this graphics card in both the hardwareDB Benchmark and other benchmark utilities. Synthetic tests are an estimation of real-world performance using consistent and repeatable benchmarks.

hardwareDB Benchmark

All tests were performed at 1920 x 1080 resolution

Flux Core

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

24 FPS average

17 FPS 10% low

17 FPS 1% low

Electron

Randomly generated noise sphere test

21 FPS average

20 FPS 10% low

22 FPS 1% low

City

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS average

14 FPS 10% low

12 FPS 1% low

Clouds

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS average

15 FPS 10% low

17 FPS 1% low

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Alternative benchmarks

Here are some benchmark results using alternative testing software

Geekbench (CUDA)

CUDA compute benchmark

11,818

Geekbench (OpenCL)

OpenCL compute benchmark

12,257

Geekbench (Vulkan)

Vulkan compute benchmark

10,582

3DMark Graphics

High-end graphics benchmark

1,226

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GPU Comparison

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M compared against popular alternatives. Compare against more GPUs with our GPU Comparison Tool.

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT	30 %
Intel Iris Xe	10 %
NVIDIA Quadro P600	7 %
NVIDIA Quadro K2200	6 %
NVIDIA Quadro M1200	6 %
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M	6 %
NVIDIA Quadro M2000M	5 %

Specifications

Core Clock	1097 MHz
Boost Clock	1176 MHz
Memory Type	GDDR5
Memory Size	4 GiB
Bus Width	128 bit
Memory Bandwidth	78.31 GB/s
TDP	65 W
Floating Point Performance	1.5 TFLOP/s
Release Date	2015-03-13
DirectX Support	12.0
OpenGL Support	4.5
Pixel Rate	18.82 Gigapixels/s
Texture Rate	47.04 Gigatexels/s
Shading Units	640
Texture Mapping Units	40
Render Output Processors	16

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

The GeForce GTX 960M is an NVIDIA GPU that was released in March 2015. This GPU is bad at gaming with a score of 6% in our PC benchmark.

The GeForce GTX 960M has 4 GiB of GDDR5 memory, with a total memory bandwidth of 78 GB/s. The memory bus has a width of 128 bits. More memory is beneficial when gaming at high resolutions as the memory needs to store the frame buffer and all the game textures. If you run out of memory, you will experience poor performance as the GPU needs to swap data in and out of the memory as it is used.

In terms of clock speed, the GeForce GTX 960M GPU core runs at a frequency of 1097 MHz and if power and temperature permits, it can boost up to 1176 MHz. A clock speed is the frequency at which the GPU updates. A higher speed means more processing can happen per cycle. This is useful only when comparing cards of the same generation, as other architectures may process more or less per clock.

As for rendering API support, the GeForce GTX 960M supports up to DirectX 12.0. In addition, in cross-platform titles, OpenGL 4.5 features are supported. If your GPU is too old and doesn't support a newer API certain titles may not be playable.

Power and thermals for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M are a TDP (Thermal Design Power) of 65 watts. This measures the amount of heat the GPU produces when running at 100%. This isn't a measure of power consumption, but it's a good estimate.

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