GeForce GTX 880M vs GeForce GTX 960M

GeForce GTX 880M
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 12 Mar 2014
GeForce GTX 880M
GeForce GTX 960M
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce GTX 960M

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 880M
    150%
  • GeForce GTX 960M
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 880M

Around 50% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 960M

47 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 880M .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 880M

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 880M

The GeForce GTX 880M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 880MGeForce GTX 960M
GPU NameGK104 (N15E-GX-A2)vsGM107 (N16P-GX-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size294 mm²vs148 mm²
Transistors3,540 millionvs1,870 million
Shaders1536vs640
Compute Units8vs5
Core clock954 MHzvs1097 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs128vs40

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 880MGeForce GTX 960M
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 880MGeForce GTX 960M
TDP122 wattsvs75 watts
Release Date12 Mar 2014vs13 Mar 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 880M
    30.53 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 960M
    17.55 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 880M
    122.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 960M
    43.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 880M
    160.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 960M
    80.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 880M
    2930.70 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 960M
    1404.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 880M
    7980
  • GeForce GTX 960M
    5320

Points (higher is better)

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