NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060, 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

6694 points

1028% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS

161 FPS

148 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

77 FPS

66 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS

113 FPS

103 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS

61 FPS

52 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1232 points

2309 points

87% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.59 points

3124.65 points

2138% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11578 points

101567 points

777% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9535 points

99687 points

945% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1097 MHz

1925 MHz

75% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1176 MHz

2075 MHz

76% significantly higher boost clock speed

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

288 GB/s

259% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W

207% significantly lower TDP

200 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.82 Gigapixels/s

132.8 Gigapixels/s

605% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

47.04 Gigatexels/s

381.8 Gigatexels/s

711% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.50 TFLOPS

24.44 TFLOPS

1523% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

5888

819% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

360% 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

309th of 586

73rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 March

2023 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

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 RTX 4060 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 960M in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 4060 has a significantly 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 RTX 4060 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 960M has a significantly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4060 at 200 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 RTX 4060 is better than the GeForce GTX 960M.