NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

593 points

11108 points

1773% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS

285 FPS

272 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

140 FPS

129 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS

193 FPS

183 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS

110 FPS

101 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.59 points

5482.15 points

3827% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11578 points

159842 points

1280% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9535 points

145828 points

1429% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1097 MHz

1290 MHz

17% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1176 MHz

1665 MHz

41% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

80.19 GB/s

432 GB/s

438% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W

69% significantly lower TDP

110 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.82 Gigapixels/s

133.2 Gigapixels/s

607% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

47.04 Gigatexels/s

386.3 Gigatexels/s

721% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.50 TFLOPS

24.72 TFLOPS

1542% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

7424

1059% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

232

480% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

400% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

309th of 586

34th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 March

2023 January

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 4080 Laptop benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop beats the GeForce GTX 960M in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop 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 RTX 4080 Laptop 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 GTX 960M has a significantly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop at 110 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 RTX 4080 Laptop is faster than the GeForce GTX 960M.