NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE
Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 and NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE 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.
Differences
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
- Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 0 month(s) later
- 42.7x more pipelines: 1024 vs 24
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
- 8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
- 58.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 6084 vs 104
- 2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 673 vs 320
Specifications (specs) | |
Launch date | 22 January 2015 vs 9 January 2008 |
Pipelines | 1024 vs 24 |
Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm vs 65 nm |
Maximum memory size | 2 GB vs 256 MB |
Benchmarks | |
PassMark - G3D Mark | 6084 vs 104 |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 673 vs 320 |
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE
- 4.8x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 120 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 25 Watt vs 120 Watt |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE
PassMark - G3D Mark |
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PassMark - G2D Mark |
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Name | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 | NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE |
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PassMark - G3D Mark | 6084 | 104 |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 673 | 320 |
Geekbench - OpenCL | 18664 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) | 73.733 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) | 792.44 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) | 4.888 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) | 35.338 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) | 200.825 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) | 7218 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) | 3691 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 3335 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 7218 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 3691 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 3335 | |
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score | 2284 |
Compare specifications (specs)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 | NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE | |
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Essentials |
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Architecture | Maxwell 2.0 | |
Code name | GM206 | MCP79Mx + NB9M |
Launch date | 22 January 2015 | 9 January 2008 |
Launch price (MSRP) | $199 | |
Place in performance rating | 505 | 508 |
Price now | $229.99 | |
Type | Desktop | Laptop |
Value for money (0-100) | 34.63 | |
Technical info |
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Boost clock speed | 1178 MHz | |
Core clock speed | 1127 MHz | |
CUDA cores | 1024 | |
Floating-point performance | 2,413 gflops | |
Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | 65 nm |
Pipelines | 1024 | 24 |
Texture fill rate | 72 billion / sec | |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 120 Watt | 25 Watt |
Transistor count | 2,940 million | |
Video outputs and ports |
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Audio input for HDMI | Internal | |
Display Connectors | Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2, 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort | |
HDCP | ||
Maximum VGA resolution | 2048x1536 | |
Multi monitor support | ||
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Bus support | PCI Express 3.0 | |
Height | 4.376" (11.1 cm) | |
Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
Length | 9.5" (24.1 cm) | |
Recommended system power (PSU) | 400 Watt | |
SLI options | 2x | |
Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pins | |
API support |
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DirectX | 12.0 (12_1) | 10.0 |
OpenGL | 4.4 | |
Vulkan | ||
Memory |
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Maximum RAM amount | 2 GB | 256 MB |
Memory bandwidth | 112 GB / s | |
Memory bus width | 128 Bit | 64 Bit |
Memory clock speed | 7.0 GB/s | |
Memory type | GDDR5 | GDDR2, GDDR3 |
Shared memory | 0 | 1 |
Technologies |
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CUDA | ||
GameStream | ||
GameWorks | ||
GeForce ShadowPlay | ||
GPU Boost |