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    GeForce GTX 950A vs GeForce GTX 960M

    GeForce GTX 950A
    Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 13 Mar 2015
    GeForce GTX 950A
    GeForce GTX 960M
    Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 13 Mar 2015
    GeForce GTX 960M

    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce GTX 950A
      100%
    • GeForce GTX 960M
      120%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950A

    Supports PhysX
    Supports G-Sync
    Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 960M

    Around 20% higher average synthetic performance.
    Supports PhysX
    Supports G-Sync
    Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
    GeForce GTX 960M

    HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 960M

    The GeForce GTX 960M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce GTX 950AGeForce GTX 960M
    GPU NameGM107 (N16P-GT)vsGM107 (N16P-GX-A1)
    Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size148 mm²vs148 mm²
    Transistors1,870 millionvs1,870 million
    Shaders640vs640
    Compute Units5vs5
    Core clock914 MHzvs1097 MHz
    ROPs16vs16
    TMUs40vs40

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 950AGeForce GTX 960M
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
    Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
    Memory Speed1000 MHz
    4000 MHz effective    		vs1253 MHz
    5012 MHz effective
    Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 950AGeForce GTX 960M
    TDP75 wattsvs75 watts
    Release Date13 Mar 2015vs13 Mar 2015

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 950A
      14.62 GP/s
    • GeForce GTX 960M
      17.55 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 950A
      36.60 GT/s
    • GeForce GTX 960M
      43.90 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GTX 950A
      64.00 GB/s
    • GeForce GTX 960M
      80.20 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 950A
      1169.90 GFLOPs
    • GeForce GTX 960M
      1404.20 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce GTX 950A
      4410
    • GeForce GTX 960M
      5320

    Points (higher is better)

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