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Graphics card overview

GeForce GTX 960

Nvidia

GeForce GTX 960

2048 Mb GDDR5 Released 22 Jan 2015 DESKTOP
GeForce GTX 960

Core configuration

GPUGM206
ArchitectureNvidia_Maxwell_2_0
Shaders : TMUs : ROPs1024 : 64 : 32
Raytracing Coresnone
Performance2308.10 GFLOPs

Memory configuration

Memory Size2048 Mb
Memory Bus Width128 bit
Memory Speed1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
Memory Bandwidth112.20 Gb/s

Summary

Relative performance

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  • Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 960 GeForce GTX 960 GeForce GTX 1050 GeForce GTX 1050 Compare Radeon RX 460 Radeon RX 460 Compare Radeon R9 370 Radeon R9 370 Compare
Shader units 1024 640 896 1280
ROPs 32 32 16 32
Graphics processor GM206 GP107 Baffin Trinidad
Process size 28 nm 14 nm 14 nm 28 nm
Memory 2048 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 width 128 bit 128 bit 128 bit 256 bit
Memory bandwidth 112.20 Gb/s 112.10 Gb/s 112.00 Gb/s 179.20 Gb/s
Release date 22 Jan 2015 25 Oct 2016 29 Jun 2016 5 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)