NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs NVIDIA GeForce MX330

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce MX330, 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

4% slightly better overall score

566 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS

18 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

9 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

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.59 points

91% significantly higher Blender score

72.87 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

11818 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

9906 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12257 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10474 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10582 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10022 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11578 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

10544 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9535 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9041 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1097 MHz

1531 MHz

39% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1176 MHz

1594 MHz

35% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

43% significantly higher memory bandwidth

56.06 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

25.5 Gigapixels/s

35% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

47.04 Gigatexels/s

22% slightly higher texture rate

38.26 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

317th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 March

2020 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 MX330 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 960M beats the GeForce MX330 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce MX330 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 MX330 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce MX330 has a significantly lower TDP at 10 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 960M at 65 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 960M is better than the GeForce MX330.