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

584 points

630 points

7% 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

High-end graphics benchmark

1232 points

25% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

979 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.59 points

33% slightly higher Blender score

104.65 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

11818 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

9545 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12257 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10030 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10582 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

9370 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11578 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

10013 points

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

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

318th of 597

311th of 597

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

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 addition, the GeForce GTX 850M has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 960M at 65 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 850M is better than the GeForce GTX 960M.

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