GeForce GTX 950M vs GeForce GTX 960

GeForce GTX 950M
Memory: 4096Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce GTX 950M
GeForce GTX 960
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Jan 2015
GeForce GTX 960

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 960
    235%

Relative performance

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 960 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 960

Around 135% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 960

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 960

The GeForce GTX 960 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 950MGeForce GTX 960
GPU NameGM107 (N16P-GT)vsGM206 (GM206-300-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size148 mm²vs228 mm²
Transistors1,870 millionvs2,940 million
Shaders640vs1024
Compute Units5vs8
Core clock993 MHzvs1127 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs40vs64

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 950MGeForce GTX 960
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 950MGeForce GTX 960
TDP75 wattsvs120 watts
Release Date13 Mar 2015vs22 Jan 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    15.89 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 960
    36.10 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    39.70 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 960
    72.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    28.80 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 960
    112.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    1271.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 960
    2308.10 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    4410
  • GeForce GTX 960
    10380

Points (higher is better)