GeForce GTX 960M vs GeForce 510 OEM

GeForce GTX 960M
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce GTX 960M
GeForce 510 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Sep 2011
GeForce 510 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 960M

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 510 OEM

50 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 960M .
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 960M

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 960M

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 960MGeForce 510 OEM
GPU NameGM107 (N16P-GX-A1)vsGF119 ()
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size148 mm²vs79 mm²
Transistors1,870 millionvs292 million
Shaders640vs48
Compute Units5vs1
Core clock1097 MHzvs523 MHz
ROPs16vs4
TMUs40vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 960MGeForce 510 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs898 MHz
1796 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 960MGeForce 510 OEM
TDP75 wattsvs25 watts
Release Date13 Mar 2015vs29 Sep 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 960M
    17.55 GP/s
  • GeForce 510 OEM
    1.05 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 960M
    43.90 GT/s
  • GeForce 510 OEM
    4.18 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 960M
    80.20 GB/s
  • GeForce 510 OEM
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 960M
    1404.20 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 510 OEM
    100.40 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better