GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce GTX 950M

GeForce GTX 1060
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Jul 2016
GeForce GTX 1060
GeForce GTX 950M
Memory: 4096Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce GTX 950M

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    394%
  • GeForce GTX 950M
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 294% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950M

45 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 1060 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 1060

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060

The GeForce GTX 1060 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060GeForce GTX 950M
GPU NameGP106 (GP106-400-A1)vsGM107 (N16P-GT)
Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
Die Size200 mm²vs148 mm²
Transistors4,400 millionvs1,870 million
Shaders1280vs640
Compute Units10vs5
Core clock1506 MHzvs993 MHz
ROPs48vs16
TMUs80vs40

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060GeForce GTX 950M
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width192 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1060GeForce GTX 950M
TDP120 wattsvs75 watts
Release Date10 Jul 2016vs13 Mar 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    72.30 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 950M
    15.89 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    120.50 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 950M
    39.70 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    192.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 950M
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    3855.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 950M
    1271.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    17380
  • GeForce GTX 950M
    4410

Points (higher is better)