GeForce GTX 960 Overview

GeForce GTX 960
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Jan 2015
GeForce GTX 960

Core Configuration

GPU GM206
Architecture Nvidia_Maxwell_2_0
Shaders : TMUs : ROPs 1024 : 64 : 32
Raytracing Cores none
Performance 2308.10 GFLOPs

Memory Configuration

Memory Size 2048 Mb
Memory Bus Width 128 bit
Memory Speed 1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
Memory Bandwidth 112.20 Gb/s

Summary

Relative performance

  • GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
    715%
  • Geforce GTX TITAN Xp
    634%
  • GeForce RTX 2080
    597%
  • GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
    543%
  • GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)
    535%
  • GeForce GTX 1080
    431%
  • GeForce GTX TITAN X
    422%
  • Radeon RX Vega 64
    417%
  • GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
    400%
  • GeForce GTX 1070
    362%
  • Radeon RX Vega 56
    357%
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    323%
  • Radeon R9 FURY X
    290%
  • Radeon R9 390X
    264%
  • Radeon R9 FURY
    261%
  • Radeon RX 580
    256%
  • Radeon R9 Nano
    253%
  • GeForce GTX 980
    252%
  • GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps
    245%
  • Radeon R9 390
    235%
  • Radeon RX 570
    233%
  • Radeon RX 480
    232%
  • Radeon RX 470
    207%
  • GeForce GTX 970
    196%
  • GeForce GTX TITAN
    195%
  • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    191%
  • Radeon R9 380X
    172%
  • Radeon R9 380
    140%
  • Radeon R9 285
    135%
  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    133%
  • Radeon R9 280X
    129%
  • Radeon RX 460
    107%
  • GeForce GTX 960
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 1050
    96%
  • Radeon R9 370
    82%
  • GeForce GTX 950
    78%

Performance summary, based on benchmarks charts.

The GeForce GTX 960 is a graphics card released by Nvidia on 22 Jan 2015. The graphics card houses the GM206 die, based on the Nvidia_Maxwell_2_0 architecture which packs 2,940 million transistors on a 28 nm, 228 mm2 die.

GeForce GTX 960 pros and cons

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications



Specifications


Compared to similar performing cards

GeForce GTX 960GeForce GTX 1050Radeon RX 460Radeon R9 370
GeForce GTX 960GeForce GTX 1050Radeon RX 460Radeon R9 370
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Shader units10246408961280
ROPs32321632
Graphics processorGM206GP107BaffinTrinidad
Process size28 nm14 nm14 nm28 nm
Memory2048 Mb GDDR5 (1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective)
2048 Mb GDDR5 (1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective)
2048 Mb GDDR5 (1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective)
2048 Mb GDDR5 (1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective)
Memory bus width128 bit128 bit128 bit256 bit
Memory bandwidth112.20 Gb/s112.10 Gb/s112.00 Gb/s179.20 Gb/s
Release date22 Jan 201525 Oct 201629 Jun 20165 May 2015

Benchmarks

Rise Of The Tomb Raider

  • Radeon RX 460
    34
  • GeForce GTX 1050
    31
  • GeForce GTX 960
    31
  • Radeon R9 370
    30

FPS (higher is better)

Rise Of The Tomb Raider

  • Radeon RX 460
    22
  • GeForce GTX 960
    21
  • GeForce GTX 1050
    20
  • Radeon R9 370
    20

FPS (higher is better)

Rise Of The Tomb Raider

  • GeForce GTX 960
    9
  • Radeon R9 370
    5

FPS (higher is better)

Gears of War 4

  • GeForce GTX 960
    42
  • GeForce GTX 1050
    40

FPS (higher is better)

Gears of War 4

  • GeForce GTX 960
    27
  • GeForce GTX 1050
    26

FPS (higher is better)

Gears of War 4

  • GeForce GTX 960
    9

FPS (higher is better)