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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

593 points
5925 points
899% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS
116 FPS
103 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS
80 FPS
69 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS
112 FPS
102 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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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.59 points
3522.98 points
2423% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11578 points
104383 points
801% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) 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

40
104
160% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
48
200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

310th of 586
84th of 586

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
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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop is faster than the GeForce GTX 960M.

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