NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
Benchmark and Specs


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Benchmark and Specs

Here you will find all technical data as well as various benchmarks of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960. 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 is 1.178 GHz, so the graphics card achieves an FP32 computing power of 2.41 TFLOPS.

GPU

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
Raytracing Cores: 0

Memory

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

Clock Speeds

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
Avg (Game) Clock:
Overclocking: Yes

Thermal Design

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
TDP (up): --
Tjunction max: 98 °C
PCIe-Power: 1 x 6-Pin

Cooler & Fans

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
Fan 2: --
Cooler-Type: Air cooling
Noise (Idle): 0 dB / Silent
Noise (Load): --

Connectivity

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-Version: 2.2
HDMI Ports: 1x HDMI v2.0
DP Ports: 3x DP v1.2
DVI Ports: 1
VGA Ports: --
USB-C Ports: --

Featureset

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

Supported Video Codecs

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

Dimensions

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
Height: --
Width: --
Width (Slots): 2 PCIe-Slots
Weight: --

Additional data

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
Part-no: --
Documents: --

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
2 GB GDDR5
996
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
Average of gpu group
1040

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

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
2 GB GDDR5
17964
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
Average of gpu group
20828

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
2 GB GDDR5
20498
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
Average of gpu group
22292

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
2 GB GDDR5
2.41

More benchmarks

In order to determine the performance of a graphics card, so-called "benchmarks" are carried out. The benchmark software carries out special calculations to determine the performance of a graphics card. We use so-called theoretical or synthetic benchmarks (e.g. 3D Mark) as well as real game benchmarks. To ensure real comparability of the results, we pay attention to the correct execution of the benchmarks as well as the condition of the graphics card and the system.

We use the following benchmarks to measure the performance of a graphics card:

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