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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 960 sales 22 January 2015 at a recommended price of $199. This is Maxwell 2.0 architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 7.0 GB/s are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 112 GB / s.

Compatibility-wise, this is 2-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 9.5" (24.1 cm). 1x 6-pins power connector is required, and power consumption is at 120 Watt.

It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 29.46 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile.

General info

Of GeForce GTX 960's architecture, market type and release date.

Place in performance rating

138

Value for money (0-100)

36.09

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Code name

GM206

Type

Desktop

Release date

22 January 2015

Launch price (MSRP)

$199

of 14999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Price now

$272

of 10560 (Quadro GV100)

Technical specs

GeForce GTX 960's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 960's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines

1024

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

CUDA cores

1024

Core clock speed

1127 MHz

of 1680 (Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary)

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

of 1830 (Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary)

Transistor count

2,940 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

of 7

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

72 billion / sec

of 1760 (Quadro4 400 NVS PCI)

Floating-point performance

2,413 gflops

of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on GeForce GTX 960's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Length

9.5" (24.1 cm)

Height

4.376" (11.1 cm)

Recommended system power (PSU)

400 Watt

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pins

SLI options

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 960: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

of 32784 (Radeon Pro Duo Polaris)

Memory bus width

128 Bit

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Memory clock speed

7.0 GB/s

of 15496 (GeForce RTX 2080 Super)

Memory bandwidth

112 GB / s

of 1024 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Shared memory

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 960.

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

Display Connectors

Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2

Multi monitor support

4 displays

HDCP

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

Technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce GTX 960. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

GameStream

GeForce ShadowPlay

GPU Boost

2.0

GameWorks

CUDA

API support

APIs supported by GeForce GTX 960, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

12.0 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.4

of 4.6

Vulkan

Benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of GeForce GTX 960. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

29.46

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

310860

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

49918

3DMark Fire Strike Score

6699

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

7916

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

10768

3DMark Vantage Performance

30751

Unigine Heaven 4.0

866

Passmark

5822

Octane Render OctaneBench

Mining hashrates

Cryptocurrency mining performance of GeForce GTX 960. Usually measured in megahashes per second.

Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)

318 Mh/s

Decred / DCR (Decred)

0.92 Gh/s

Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto)

8 Mh/s

Monero / XMR (CryptoNight)

0.27 kh/s

Zcash / ZEC (Equihash)

141.47 Sol/s

Game benchmarks

Let's see how good GeForce GTX 960 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS. Comparisons with system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.