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

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

Around 60% higher memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 2500 MHz

Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 2500 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

Around 20% higher core clock speed: 1096 MHz vs 914 MHz
Around 18% higher boost clock speed: 1176 MHz vs 993 MHz
Around 18% higher texture fill rate: 47.04 GTexel / s vs 39.72 GTexel / s
Around 18% better floating-point performance: 1,505 gflops vs 1,271 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB

Core clock speed	1096 MHz vs 914 MHz
Boost clock speed	1176 MHz vs 993 MHz
Texture fill rate	47.04 GTexel / s vs 39.72 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	1,505 gflops vs 1,271 gflops
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB

Compare benchmarks

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

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
PassMark - G3D Mark		3374
PassMark - G2D Mark		246
Geekbench - OpenCL		10948
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		54.294
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		795.325
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		3.692
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		51.794
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		174.513
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		5264
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		5264
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1231

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	Maxwell
Code name	GM107	GM107
Launch date	13 March 2015	13 March 2015
Place in performance rating	not rated	773
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	993 MHz	1176 MHz
Core clock speed	914 MHz	1096 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,271 gflops	1,505 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	640	640
Texture fill rate	39.72 GTexel / s	47.04 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	1,870 million	1,870 million
CUDA cores		640
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support		1
HDMI
VGA аnalog display support		1
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	MXM-B (3.0)
Bus support		PCI Express 3.0
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	64 GB / s	80 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz	2500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
Adaptive VSync
Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
DSR
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI