NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960: specs and benchmarks
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 32.04 percent of a leader's which is AMD Radeon R9 390 X2.
General info
Technical specs
Memory specs
Technologies
Benchmarks
Mining
Gaming
AMD equivalent
Advices and comments
General info
Of GeForce GTX 960's architecture, market type and release date.
Perfomance to price
38.22
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Code name
GM206
Type
Desktop
Release date
22 January 2015
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.
CUDA cores
1024
Transistor count
2,940 million
of 21100
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
of 12
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)
Width
2-slot
Recommended system power (PSU)
400 Watt
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pins
SLI options
2x
Memory specs
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 32
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
G-SYNC support
+
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.
3D Vision
+
GameStream
+
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
GPU Boost
+
GameWorks
+
CUDA
+
SLI
+
GeForce Experience
+
Surround
+
Adaptive Vertical Sync
+
API support
APIs supported by GeForce GTX 960, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX
DirectX 12
OpenGL
4.4
Video card benchmarks 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
32.04
3DMark Ice Storm GPU
310860.00
3DMark Cloud Gate GPU
49917.50
3DMark Fire Strike Score
6698.50
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
7915.50
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
10767.50
3DMark Vantage Performance
30751.00
Unigine Heaven 3.0
5151.51
Unigine Heaven 4.0
866
Passmark
5806
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score
7740
Octane Render OctaneBench
48
Mining hashrate
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 (in FPS)
Let's see how good GeForce GTX 960 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS, while overall gaming performance is a number in 0-100 range, and the older the game, the less impact it has on the overall grade.
Overall gaming performance
16.42
Games benchmarked by notebookcheck.net
Doom (2016)
low / 720p
142.80
medium / 768p
126.80
high / 1080p
74.00
ultra / 1080p
68.00
4k / 2160p
21.60
Far Cry Primal (2016)
low / 720p
115.00
medium / 1080p
60.00
high / 1080p
53.00
ultra / 1080p
37.00
4k / 2160p
16.00
Overwatch (2016)
low / 720p
266.70
medium / 768p
206.60
high / 1080p
115.70
ultra / 1080p
66.90
4k / 2160p
38.60
Rise of the Tomb Raider (2016)
low / 768p
112.60
medium / 768p
71.30
high / 1080p
43.70
ultra / 1080p
36.10
4k / 2160p
17.00
The Division (2016)
low / 720p
122.60
medium / 768p
91.70
high / 1080p
45.00
ultra / 1080p
33.90
4k / 2160p
16.60
XCOM 2 (2016)
low / 720p
90.00
medium / 1080p
56.90
high / 1080p
35.60
ultra / 1080p
16.70
Fallout 4 (2015)
low / 720p
163.60
medium / 768p
103.40
high / 1080p
56.70
ultra / 1080p
44.80
4k / 2160p
18.50
GTA V (2015)
low / 768p
147.30
medium / 768p
146.10
high / 1080p
69.80
ultra / 1080p
28.30
Just Cause 3 (2015)
low / 768p
98.00
medium / 768p
94.10
high / 1080p
60.30
ultra / 1080p
52.60
4k / 2160p
21.60
Rainbow Six Siege (2015)
low / 768p
248.50
medium / 768p
163.60
high / 1080p
90.20
ultra / 1080p
64.50
4k / 2160p
27.20
The Witcher 3 (2015)
low / 768p
142.80
medium / 768p
86.60
high / 1080p
49.80
ultra / 1080p
27.70
Far Cry 4 (2014)
low / 768p
113.60
medium / 768p
112.20
high / 1080p
65.80
ultra / 1080p
50.40
Sims 4 (2014)
low / 768p
178.80
medium / 768p
141.30
high / 1080p
107.00
ultra / 1080p
98.30
Battlefield 4 (2013)
low / 768p
198.80
medium / 768p
193.20
high / 768p
147.50
ultra / 1080p
58.00
Crysis 3 (2013)
low / 768p
139.70
medium / 768p
123.90
high / 768p
91.70
ultra / 1080p
36.10
Tomb Raider (2013)
low / 768p
484.40
medium / 768p
301.20
high / 768p
187.50
ultra / 1080p
89.10
Relative perfomance
Overall GeForce GTX 960 performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.
AMD equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce GTX 960 from AMD is Radeon R9 270X, which is slower by 1% and lower by 1 position in our rating.
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