GeForce GTX 960M vs GeForce GTX 950
Summary
GeForce GTX 960M
100%
GeForce GTX 950
159%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 960M |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 950 |
| Around 59% 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 950
The GeForce GTX 950 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 960M | | GeForce GTX 950 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GM107 (N16P-GX-A1) | vs | GM206 (GM206-250-A1) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 148 mm² | vs | 228 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,870 million | vs | 2,940 million |
| Shaders | 640 | vs | 768 |
| Compute Units | 5 | vs | 6 |
| Core clock | 1097 MHz | vs | 1024 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 40 | vs | 48 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 960M | | GeForce GTX 950 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective | vs | 1653 MHz
6612 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 960M | | GeForce GTX 950 | |
|---|
| TDP | 75 watts | vs | 90 watts |
| Release Date | 13 Mar 2015 | vs | 20 Aug 2015 |
GeForce GTX 960M
17.55 GP/s
GeForce GTX 950
32.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 960M
43.90 GT/s
GeForce GTX 950
49.20 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 960M
80.20 GB/s
GeForce GTX 950
105.80 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 960M
1404.20 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 950
1572.90 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GTX 960M
5320
GeForce GTX 950
8490
Points (higher is better)