NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A

  • Around 13% higher core clock speed: 1029 MHz vs 914 MHz
  • Around 9% higher boost clock speed: 1085 MHz vs 993 MHz
  • Around 9% higher texture fill rate: 43.4 GTexel / s vs 39.72 GTexel / s
  • Around 9% better floating-point performance: 1,389 gflops vs 1,271 gflops
  • Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 5012 MHz vs 4000 MHz
Core clock speed 1029 MHz vs 914 MHz
Boost clock speed 1085 MHz vs 993 MHz
Texture fill rate 43.4 GTexel / s vs 39.72 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance 1,389 gflops vs 1,271 gflops
Memory clock speed 5012 MHz vs 4000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A

Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A
PassMark - G3D Mark 3465
PassMark - G2D Mark 312
Geekbench - OpenCL 12495
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 49.772
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 757.295
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.67
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 49.875
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 179.567
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 5157
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 5834
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 7859
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 5157
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 5834
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 7859

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell Maxwell
Code name GM107 GM107
Launch date 13 March 2015 13 March 2015
Place in performance rating not rated 553
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 993 MHz 1085 MHz
Core clock speed 914 MHz 1029 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,271 gflops 1,389 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 640 640
Texture fill rate 39.72 GTexel / s 43.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt 75 Watt
Transistor count 1,870 million 1,870 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-B (3.0) MXM-B (3.0)

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 64 GB / s 80.19 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz 5012 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5