GeForce GTX 950 vs GeForce GTX 960

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 960, which features core speeds of 1127 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

Display Graphs

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 960		7627 points
GeForce GTX 950		6536 points
	Difference: 1091 (17%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 960		11 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 950		10 Mh/s
	Difference: 1 (10%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 950		155 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 960		154 Sol/s
	Difference: 1 (1%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (33%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 960 should theoretically be a small bit faster than the GeForce GTX 950 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
	Difference: 6272 (6%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 should be quite a bit (more or less 47%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 950. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 22976 (47%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 960 is superior to the GeForce GTX 950, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3296 (10%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.