NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT, 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

593 points
6488% significantly better overall score
9 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS
12 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
1 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS
10 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
0 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS
10 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
0 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS
9 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
0 FPS

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Specifications

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

80.19 GB/s
150% significantly higher memory bandwidth
32 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W
50 W
30% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.82 Gigapixels/s
292% significantly higher pixel rate
4.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

47.04 Gigatexels/s
389% significantly higher texture rate
9.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640
1900% significantly more shading units
32

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

40
150% significantly more texture mapping units
16

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
100% significantly more render output processors
8

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

310th of 586
569th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 March
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
11.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
3.3

GeForce GTX 960M vs GeForce 9500 GT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 960M GPU is faster than the GeForce 9500 GT in gaming.

In addition, the GeForce 9500 GT has a slightly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 960M at 65 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 960M over the GeForce 9500 GT.

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