NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 945M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce 945M 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: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (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 960 OEM

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 0 month(s) later
  • Around 14% higher core clock speed: 1176 MHz vs 1029 MHz
  • Around 11% higher boost clock speed: 1201 MHz vs 1085 MHz
  • 2.6x more texture fill rate: 76.86 GTexel / s vs 29.81 GTexel / s
  • 2x more pipelines: 1024 vs 512
  • 2.6x better floating-point performance: 2,460 gflops vs 953.9 gflops
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
  • 3.9x more memory clock speed: 7012 MHz vs 1800 MHz
  • 2.7x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 76.687 vs 28.633
  • 2.3x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 890.785 vs 380.461
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 26 November 2015 vs 27 October 2015
Core clock speed 1176 MHz vs 1029 MHz
Boost clock speed 1201 MHz vs 1085 MHz
Texture fill rate 76.86 GTexel / s vs 29.81 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1024 vs 512
Floating-point performance 2,460 gflops vs 953.9 gflops
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed 7012 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 76.687 vs 28.633
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 890.785 vs 380.461

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 945M

  • Around 8% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 31.027 vs 28.659
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 31.027 vs 28.659

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 945M

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
76.687
28.633
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
890.785
380.461
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
28.659
31.027
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM NVIDIA GeForce 945M
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 76.687 28.633
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 890.785 380.461
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 28.659 31.027
PassMark - G3D Mark 2109
PassMark - G2D Mark 240
Geekbench - OpenCL 8099
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.988
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 107.094
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2961
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3683
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3343
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2961
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3683
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3343

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM NVIDIA GeForce 945M

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell 2.0 Maxwell
Code name GM206 GM107
Launch date 26 November 2015 27 October 2015
Place in performance rating 960 961
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1201 MHz 1085 MHz
Core clock speed 1176 MHz 1029 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,460 gflops 953.9 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 1024 512
Texture fill rate 76.86 GTexel / s 29.81 GTexel / s
Transistor count 2,940 million 1,870 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors None None
Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.5

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 112.2 GB / s 16.02 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 7012 MHz 1800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

CUDA
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GPU Boost
Optimus