NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M, 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

1% slightly better overall score

584 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

Identical

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

8 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1232 points

6% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1155 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.59 points

35% slightly higher Blender score

102.79 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

11818 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

11144 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12257 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

11550 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10582 points

10627 points

0.43% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11578 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11127 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9535 points

9592 points

0.60% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1097 MHz

7% slightly higher core clock speed

1020 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1176 MHz

8% slightly higher boost clock speed

1085 MHz

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

Identical

80.19 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W

15% slightly lower TDP

75 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.82 Gigapixels/s

8% slightly higher pixel rate

17.36 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

47.04 Gigatexels/s

8% slightly higher texture rate

43.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.50 TFLOPS

2.11 TFLOPS

40% slightly better floating point performance

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

310th of 586

311th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 March

2015 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

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 860M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 860M GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 960M in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 960M has a slightly 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 slightly 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 GTX 960M has a slightly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 860M at 75 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 860M is faster than the GeForce GTX 960M.