NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 Benchmark and Specs

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 is equipped with 8 execution and 1024 shader units. With single precision, a theoretical FP32 computing power of 2.41 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 has a 128 bit wide memory interface, with which a memory bandwidth of 112 GB/s is achieved. In total, 2 GB GDDR5 graphics memory is available for the graphics card.

Memory Size

2 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 with 1.127 GHz (base clock) or with 1.178 GHz (turbo clock). If overclocking is supported (see below), the clock rate can be increased even further.

Base Clock

1.127 GHz

Boost Clock

1.178 GHz

Overclocking

Yes

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 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

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 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

Up to 4 screens can be connected to the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960, 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 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

Here is a list of which video codecs can be decoded / encoded by the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 are 241 mm in length, -- in height and -- in width. Thus 2 PCIe-Slots are needed in a case.

Length

241 mm

Width (Slots)

2 PCIe-Slots

SFF-Ready

No

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 is manufactured in a structure width of 28 nm and has a PCIe 3 x 16 lanes interface. The graphics card was released in Q1/2015.

GPU Interface

PCIe 3 x 16

Release date

Q1/2015

Launch Price

199 $

Structure size

28 nm