NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M, 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
630 points
6% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

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

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate
9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
9 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1232 points
25% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
979 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.59 points
33% slightly higher Blender score
104.65 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

11818 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
9545 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12257 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
10030 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10582 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
9370 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11578 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
10013 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9535 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
9122 points

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
32.03 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W
45 W
44% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.82 Gigapixels/s
30% slightly higher pixel rate
14.43 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

47.04 Gigatexels/s
30% slightly higher texture rate
36.08 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640
Identical
640

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

40
Identical
40

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
Identical
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

310th of 586
304th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 March
2014 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 960M vs GeForce GTX 850M benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 850M graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 960M in our tests.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 850M over the GeForce GTX 960M.

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