NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M, 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

390% significantly better overall score

121 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

3 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12257 points

496% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

2056 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11578 points

343% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

2610 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1097 MHz

52% significantly higher core clock speed

719 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1176 MHz

55% significantly higher boost clock speed

758 MHz

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

80.19 GB/s

526% significantly higher memory bandwidth

12.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W

33 W

96% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.82 Gigapixels/s

520% significantly higher pixel rate

3.03 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

47.04 Gigatexels/s

287% significantly higher texture rate

12.13 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

233% significantly more shading units

192

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

150% 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

310th of 586

483rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 March

2013 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 960M vs GeForce GT 720M benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 960M graphics card is better than the GeForce GT 720M in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 960M has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 960M also has a significantly 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.

In addition, the GeForce GT 720M has a significantly lower TDP at 33 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 960M at 65 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 960M is faster than the GeForce GT 720M.