GeForce GTX 960M and Quadro M520 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 960M vs Quadro M520
GeForce GTX 960M
3496
Quadro M520
1943
GeForce GTX 960M
Quadro M520
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
N16P-GX
GM108
Market segment
Laptop
Mobile workstation
Release date
March 2015
January 2017
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
MXM-A (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1202 MHz
1019 MHz
Core clock speed
1096 MHz
756 MHz
CUDA cores
640
-
Floating-point performance
1,505 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,870 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
384
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
25 Watt
Texture fill rate
47.04
16.66
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
2500 MHz
5012 MHz
Memory bandwidth
80 GB/s
40 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
VGA аnalog display support
+
-
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12
CUDA
+
5.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.5
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.1.126
3D Stereo
-
+
Ansel
+
-
BatteryBoost
+
-
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-
nView Display Management
-
+
Optimus
+
+
Optimus
-
+