NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 960 OEM sales 26 November 2015. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Maxwell 2.0 architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 7.01 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 112.2 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface.
General info
Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 960 OEM: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019) | |
| GPU code name | GM206 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 26 November 2015 (8 years old) | |
| Current price | $95 | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Technical specs
GeForce GTX 960 OEM's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 960 OEM's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 1024 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 924 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Boost clock speed | 1201 MHz | of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 2,940 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 4 (H100 PCIe) |
| Texture fill rate | 76.86 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 2,460 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GTX 960 OEM and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 960 OEM: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 4 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 7012 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 112.2 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 960 OEM. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API support
APIs supported by GeForce GTX 960 OEM, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_1) | |
| Shader Model | 6.4 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | 1.1.126 | |
| CUDA | 5.2 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 960 OEM is Radeon Sky 500.
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GeForce GTX 960 OEM according to our statistics.
