NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960: GPU Specs & Benchmarks

The GeForce GTX 960 is a graphics card by NVIDIA, built on the 28 nm process and based on the GM206 graphics processor (GPU). The video card specifications and performance tests (benchmarks) are listed below.

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Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy

2428

3DMark Time Spy Extreme

1093

3DMark Fire Strike

6460

3DMark Fire Strike Extreme

3432

3DMark Fire Strike Ultra

1692

3DMark Wild Life

16015

3DMark Wild Life Extreme

4648

3DMark Night Raid

18647

Graphics Processor (GPU)

GPU Name

GM206

Model number

GM206-300-A1

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Foundry

TSMC

Process Size

28 nm

Transistors

2,940 million

Die Size

228 mm²

Graphics Card

Release Date

Jan 22nd, 2015

Family

GeForce 900

Production

Active

Launch Price

199 USD

Predecessor

GeForce 700

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

Memory Type

GDDR5

Memory Bus

128 bit

Bandwidth

112.2 GB/s

Performance

Pixel fillrate

37.70 GPixel/s

Texture fillrate

75.39 GTexel/s

FP32 (float) performance

2.413 TFLOPS

FP64 (double) performance

75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)

Clock Speeds

Base Clock

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz
7 Gbps effective

Render Config

Shading Units

1024

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Board Design

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Length

241 mm
9.5 inches

Thermal design power (TDP)

120 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

Display Connectors

1x DVI
1x HDMI
3x DisplayPort

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Board Number

PG301

API support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

OpenCL

3.0

Vulkan

1.1

Shader Model

6.4

CUDA

5.2