GALAX GeForce GTX 960 Reference Design OC
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GALAX GeForce GTX 960 Reference Design OC Benchmark and Specs

Here you will find all technical data as well as various benchmarks of the GALAX GeForce GTX 960 Reference Design OC. Up to 4 screens with a maximum resolution of up to 4096x2160 can be operated with this graphics card. The maximum turbo clock of the GALAX GeForce GTX 960 Reference Design OC is 1.216 GHz, so the graphics card achieves an FP32 computing power of 2.49 TFLOPS.
FP32
2.49TFLOPS
Boost Clock
1.22GHz
Memory
4GB GDDR5
TDP
120 W

Technical details

GPU

The GALAX GeForce GTX 960 Reference Design OC is equipped with 8 execution and 1024 shader units. With single precision, a theoretical FP32 computing power of 2.49 TFLOPS is achieved.

GPU Chip
GM206-300-A1 (Maxwell 2.0)
Streaming Multiprocessors
8
Shader
1024
Render Output Units
32
Texture Units
64

Memory

The GALAX GeForce GTX 960 Reference Design OC has a 128 bit wide memory interface, with which a memory bandwidth of 112 GB/s is achieved. In total, 4 GB GDDR5 graphics memory is available for the graphics card.

Memory Size
4 GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
Memory Clock
1.753 GHz
Memory Speed
7.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
Memory Interface
128 bit

Clock Speeds

The manufacturer specifies the memory clock of the GALAX GeForce GTX 960 Reference Design OC with 1.152 GHz (base clock) or with 1.216 GHz (turbo clock). If overclocking is supported (see below), the clock rate can be increased even further.

Base Clock
1.152 GHz+2 %
Boost Clock
1.216 GHz+3 %
Overclocking
Yes

Thermal Design

The GALAX GeForce GTX 960 Reference Design OC has 1 x 6-Pin plugs, which supply the graphics card with energy. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 98 °C.

TDP
120 W
Tjunction max
98 °C
PCIe-Power
1 x 6-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The GALAX GeForce GTX 960 Reference Design OC is equipped with 1 Radial main fans, which are used to cool the graphics processor and graphics memory.

Fan-Type
Radial
Fan 1
1 x 65 mm
Cooler-Type
Air cooling
Noise (Idle)
0 dB / Silent

Connectivity

Up to 4 screens can be connected to the GALAX GeForce GTX 960 Reference Design OC, whereby the backward-compatible HDCP copy protection is supported in the 2.2 version.

Max. Displays
4
HDCP
2.2
HDMI
1x HDMI 2.0
DisplayPort
3x DP 1.2
DVI
1

Featureset

The GALAX GeForce GTX 960 Reference Design OC supports a maximum resolution of 4096x2160 pixels and the DirectX standard version 12_1.

Max. resolution
4096x2160
DirectX
12_1
Raytracing
No
DLSS / FSR
No
LED
No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

Here is a list of which video codecs can be decoded / encoded by the GALAX GeForce GTX 960 Reference Design OC in hardware in order to minimize the processor load.

h264
Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC
No
VP8
Decode
VP9
No
AV1
No

Dimensions

The dimensions of the GALAX GeForce GTX 960 Reference Design OC are 255 mm in length, 124 mm in height and 41 mm in width. Thus 2 PCIe-Slots are needed in a case.

Length
255 mm
Height
124 mm
Width
41 mm
Width (Slots)
2 PCIe-Slots
SFF-Ready
No

Additional data

The GALAX GeForce GTX 960 Reference Design OC is manufactured in a structure width of 28 nm and has a PCIe 3 x 16 lanes interface. The graphics card was released in Q3/2015.

GPU Interface
PCIe 3 x 16
Release date
Q3/2015
Launch Price
199 $
Structure size
28 nm
GALAX GeForce GTX 960 Reference Design OC
1.152 GHz · 4 GB · 120 W TDP
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Benchmark results

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL Rank 5,062 / 5,255

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    18,560
  2. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960Average of gpu group
    20,828

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan Rank 4,931 / 5,233

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    21,178
  2. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960Average of gpu group
    22,292

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