NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 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 4090 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

593 points

14473 points

2340% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS

355 FPS

342 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

182 FPS

171 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS

253 FPS

244 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS

145 FPS

136 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.59 points

7059.26 points

4957% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11578 points

181715 points

1469% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9535 points

172409 points

1708% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1097 MHz

1335 MHz

21% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1176 MHz

1695 MHz

44% significantly higher boost clock speed

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

576 GB/s

618% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W

84% significantly lower TDP

120 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.82 Gigapixels/s

189.8 Gigapixels/s

908% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

47.04 Gigatexels/s

515.3 Gigatexels/s

995% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

9728

1419% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

304

659% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

599% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

310th of 586

19th 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 4090 Laptop specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 960M in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop also has a significantly 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 4090 Laptop at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop is faster than the GeForce GTX 960M.