NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs NVIDIA GeForce MX250

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce MX250, 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

640 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

14 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

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

Identical

10 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

18% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1039 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.59 points

55% significantly higher Blender score

89.74 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

11818 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

9734 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12257 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10197 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10582 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

9939 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11578 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9326 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9535 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9178 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1097 MHz

17% slightly higher core clock speed

937 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1176 MHz

13% slightly higher boost clock speed

1038 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

66% significantly higher memory bandwidth

48.06 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W

10 W

550% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.82 Gigapixels/s

13% slightly higher pixel rate

16.61 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

47.04 Gigatexels/s

88% significantly higher texture rate

24.91 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

66% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

66% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

310th of 586

302nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 March

2019 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 MX250 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce MX250 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 960M in our tests.

Our database shows that 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.

In addition, the GeForce MX250 has a significantly lower TDP at 10 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 960M at 65 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce MX250 over the GeForce GTX 960M.