GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 XTREME GAMING Benchmark and Specs

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 XTREME GAMING is equipped with 8 execution and 1024 shader units. With single precision, a theoretical FP32 computing power of 2.80 TFLOPS is achieved.

Based on

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

GPU Chip

GM206-300-A1 (Maxwell 2.0)

Streaming Multiprocessors

8

Shader

1024

Render Output Units

32

Texture Units

64

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 XTREME GAMING 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

The manufacturer specifies the memory clock of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 XTREME GAMING with 1.304 GHz (base clock) or with 1.367 GHz (turbo clock). If overclocking is supported (see below), the clock rate can be increased even further.

Base Clock

1.304 GHz+16 %

Boost Clock

1.367 GHz+16 %

Avg (Game) Clock

1.342 GHz

Overclocking

Yes

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 XTREME GAMING has 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-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, 1 x 8-Pin

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 XTREME GAMING is equipped with 2 Axial main fans, which are used to cool the graphics processor and graphics memory.

Fan-Type

Axial

Fan 1

2 x 85 mm

Cooler-Type

Air cooling

Noise (Idle)

0 dB / Silent

Up to 4 screens can be connected to the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 XTREME GAMING, 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

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 XTREME GAMING 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

Addressable LED

Here is a list of which video codecs can be decoded / encoded by the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 XTREME GAMING in hardware in order to minimize the processor load.

h264

Decode / Encode

h265 / HEVC

No

VP8

Decode

VP9

No

AV1

No

The dimensions of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 XTREME GAMING are 262 mm in length, 127 mm in height and 40 mm in width. Thus 2 PCIe-Slots are needed in a case.

Length

262 mm

Height

127 mm

Width

40 mm

Width (Slots)

2 PCIe-Slots

SFF-Ready

No

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 XTREME GAMING is manufactured in a structure width of 28 nm and has a PCIe 3 x 16 lanes interface. The graphics card was released in Q1/2016.

GPU Interface

PCIe 3 x 16

Release date

Q1/2016

Launch Price

229 $

Structure size

28 nm

Part-no

GV-N960XTREME-4GD

Documents

data sheet