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Nvidia GeForce GTX 960M
GPUBoss recommends the Nvidia GeForce GTX 960M based on its benchmarks and compute performance.
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Released March, 2015
Nvidia GeForce GTX 960M
- 1.1 GHz
- 2 GB GDDR5
6.7 Out of 10
by Anthony-Garreffa (Jan, 2015)Performance (overclocking, power)95%Quality (build, cooling, design)90%General Features (display outputs, etc)90%Bundle, Packaging & Software90%Value for Money99% Overall TweakTown Rating93% The Bottom Line: ZOTAC has crafted such a great video card in the GeForce GTX 960 AMP!
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Released January, 2016
Nvidia GeForce 940MX
- 1.1 GHz
- 2 GB DDR3
6.3 Out of 10
by hassan-mujtaba (May, 2014)Performance figures a re not known but it is mentioned that the MX100 SSDs will feature very competitive price points which is a good sign in the SSD market since costs are going down and SSDs become the choice for storage globally due to the attractive prices.
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 960M vs 940MX among Laptop GPUs
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more | |
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| T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more | |
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| Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
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| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
| 6.7 | Overall Score |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Better 3DMark 11 graphics score | 23,777.5 | vs | 14,211 | More than 65% better 3DMark 11 graphics score | |||
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| Significantly higher effective memory clock speed | 5,012 MHz | vs | 2,002 MHz | More than 2.5x higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| Higher memory bandwidth | 80.2 GB/s | vs | 16.02 GB/s | More than 5x higher memory bandwidth | |||
| Better 3DMark06 score | 5,277 | vs | 2,834.5 | More than 85% better 3DMark06 score | |||
| Better PassMark score | 2,043 | vs | 1,225 | More than 65% better PassMark score | |||
| Better floating-point performance | 1,404.2 GFLOPS | vs | 861.7 GFLOPS | Around 65% better floating-point performance | |||
| Higher pixel rate | 17.55 GPixel/s | vs | 8.98 GPixel/s | More than 95% higher pixel rate | |||
| Higher texture rate | 43.9 GTexel/s | vs | 26.93 GTexel/s | Around 65% higher texture rate | |||
| Better cloud gate factor score | 17.8 | vs | 12.04 | Around 50% better cloud gate factor score | |||
| Higher memory clock speed | 1,253 MHz | vs | 1,001 MHz | More than 25% higher memory clock speed | |||
| More render output processors | 16 | vs | 8 | Twice as many render output processors | |||
| Wider memory bus | 128 bit | vs | 64 bit | 2x wider memory bus | |||
| Higher metro: last light framerate | 31.05 | vs | 11.6 | Around 2.8x higher metro: last light framerate | |||
| More shading units | 640 | vs | 384 | 256 more shading units | |||
| More texture mapping units | 40 | vs | 24 | 16 more texture mapping units | |||
| Better bitcoin mining score | 174.89 mHash/s | vs | 103.76 mHash/s | Around 70% better bitcoin mining score | |||
| Better PassMark direct compute score | 1,479 | vs | 912 | More than 60% better PassMark direct compute score | |||
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| Much better T-Rex score | 3,360.82 | vs | 1,927.99 | Around 75% better T-Rex score | |||
| Slightly higher turbo clock speed | 1,242 MHz | vs | 1,176 MHz | More than 5% higher turbo clock speed | |||
| Lower TDP | 23W | vs | 75W | 3.3x lower TDP | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of GeForce GTX 960M vs 940MX
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Fire Strike Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
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