
GeForce GTX 960 and GeForce 830M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 960 vs GeForce 830M
GeForce GTX 960
6254
GeForce 830M
1038
GeForce GTX 960
GeForce 830M
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
GM206
N15?
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
January 2015
March 2014
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Recommended system power (PSU)
400 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pins
-
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
1150 MHz
Core clock speed
1127 MHz
1029 MHz
CUDA cores
1024
-
Floating-point performance
2,413 gflops
588.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
256
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
33 Watt
Texture fill rate
72 billion/sec
18.40
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.5
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
+
1.1.126
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GameWorks
-
+
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
2.0
Optimus
-
+