GeForce GTX 950M and GeForce GTX 960 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 950M
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
N16P-GT
GM206
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2015
November 2015
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1124 MHz
1201 MHz
Core clock speed
914 MHz
924 MHz
CUDA cores
640
-
Floating-point performance
1,439 gflops
2,460 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,870 million
2,940 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
44.96
76.86
Memory type
DDR3 or GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 or 2500 MHz
7012 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 or 80 GB/s
112.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
VGA аnalog display support
+
-
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
5.2
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.1.126
Ansel
+
-
BatteryBoost
+
-
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-
Optimus
+
-