GeForce GTX 950M vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti

GeForce GTX 950M
Memory: 4096Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce GTX 950M
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Jan 2011
GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    105%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950M

95 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 560 Ti .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Around 5% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 560 Ti

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 560 Ti

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 950MGeForce GTX 560 Ti
GPU NameGM107 (N16P-GT)vsGF114 (GF114-400-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size148 mm²vs332 mm²
Transistors1,870 millionvs1,950 million
Shaders640vs384
Compute Units5vs8
Core clock993 MHzvs823 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs40vs64

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 950MGeForce GTX 560 Ti
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1002 MHz
4008 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 950MGeForce GTX 560 Ti
TDP75 wattsvs170 watts
Release Date13 Mar 2015vs25 Jan 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    15.89 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    13.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    39.70 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    52.70 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    28.80 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    128.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    1271.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    1263.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    4410
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    4660

Points (higher is better)