GeForce GTX 670MX vs GeForce GTX 960M

GeForce GTX 670MX
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 1 Oct 2012
GeForce GTX 670MX
GeForce GTX 960M
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce GTX 960M

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 670MX
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 960M
    110%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 670MX

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 960M

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 10% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 670MXGeForce GTX 960M
GPU NameGK104 (N13E-GR-A2)vsGM107 (N16P-GX-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size294 mm²vs148 mm²
Transistors3,540 millionvs1,870 million
Shaders960vs640
Compute Units5vs5
Core clock601 MHzvs1097 MHz
ROPs24vs16
TMUs80vs40

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 670MXGeForce GTX 960M
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed700 MHz
2800 MHz effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size3072 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 670MXGeForce GTX 960M
TDP75 wattsvs75 watts
Release Date1 Oct 2012vs13 Mar 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 670MX
    12.02 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 960M
    17.55 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 670MX
    48.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 960M
    43.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 670MX
    67.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 960M
    80.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 670MX
    1153.90 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 960M
    1404.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 670MX
    4800
  • GeForce GTX 960M
    5320

Points (higher is better)

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