GeForce GTX 960M vs GeForce GTX 770

GeForce GTX 960M
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce GTX 960M
GeForce GTX 770
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 30 May 2013
GeForce GTX 770

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 960M
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 770
    210%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 960M

155 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 770 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 770

Around 110% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 770

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 770

The GeForce GTX 770 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 960MGeForce GTX 770
GPU NameGM107 (N16P-GX-A1)vsGK104 (GK104-425-A2)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size148 mm²vs294 mm²
Transistors1,870 millionvs3,540 million
Shaders640vs1536
Compute Units5vs8
Core clock1097 MHzvs1046 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs40vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 960MGeForce GTX 770
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 960MGeForce GTX 770
TDP75 wattsvs230 watts
Release Date13 Mar 2015vs30 May 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 960M
    17.55 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 770
    33.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 960M
    43.90 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 770
    134.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 960M
    80.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 770
    224.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 960M
    1404.20 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 770
    3213.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 960M
    5320
  • GeForce GTX 770
    11180

Points (higher is better)