NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 4 GB, 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

1650 points

178% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS

32 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

25 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS

22 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS

21 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1232 points

2939 points

138% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.59 points

264.38 points

89% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

11818 points

21520 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12257 points

23785 points

94% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10582 points

26093 points

146% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11578 points

24516 points

111% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9535 points

23881 points

150% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1097 MHz

5% slightly higher core clock speed

1038 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1176 MHz

4% slightly higher boost clock speed

1127 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

80.19 GB/s

160.4 GB/s

100% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W

53% significantly lower TDP

100 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.82 Gigapixels/s

72.13 Gigapixels/s

283% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

47.04 Gigatexels/s

108.2 Gigatexels/s

130% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.50 TFLOPS

3.46 TFLOPS

130% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

1536

139% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

139% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

310th of 586

230th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 March

2014 October

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

GeForce GTX 960M vs GeForce GTX 980M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 980M GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 960M in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 960M has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 960M also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 960M has a significantly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980M at 100 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 980M is faster than the GeForce GTX 960M.