NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 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 5060 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

584 points

6305 points

979% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS

136 FPS

122 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

81 FPS

70 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS

114 FPS

105 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS

62 FPS

53 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.59 points

3522.98 points

2423% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11578 points

104383 points

801% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9535 points

98514 points

933% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1097 MHz

15% slightly higher core clock speed

952 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1176 MHz

1455 MHz

23% slightly 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

384 GB/s

378% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W

45 W

44% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.82 Gigapixels/s

69.84 Gigapixels/s

271% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

47.04 Gigatexels/s

151.3 Gigatexels/s

221% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

3328

420% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

160% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

316th of 597

77th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 March

2025 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR7

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 5060 Laptop comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 960M in gaming.

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. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 960M at 65 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop is better than the GeForce GTX 960M.