GPU Comparison
GEFORCE
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M
CORE STATE
GF116
VRAM
1536 MB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
75 W
BUS WIDTH
192 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Fermi 2.0
PROCESS
40 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2011
VS
GEFORCE
GeForce GTX 960
CORE STATE
GM206
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1178 MHz
TDP
120 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell 2.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2015
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
GTX 560M
GTX 960
Core Specs
Shading Units
192
1,024
+433.3%
Shaders
192
1,024
+433.3%
TMUs
32
64
+100.0%
ROPs
24
32
+33.3%
SM Count
4
—
Clocks
Base Clock
—
1127 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1178 MHz
GPU Clock
775 MHz
—
Shader Clock
1550 MHz
—
Memory Clock
625 MHz
2.5 Gbps effective
1753 MHz
7 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
1536 MB
2 GB
VRAM (MB)
1,536
2,048
+33.3%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192 bit
128 bit
Bandwidth
60.00 GB/s
112.2 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
384 KB
1024 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
6.200 GPixel/s
37.70 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
24.80 GTexel/s
75.39 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
595.2 GFLOPS
2.413 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
49.60 GFLOPS (1:12)
75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)
Power
TDP
75 W
120 W
TDP (W)
75
120
+60.0%
Suggested PSU
—
300 W
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
Maxwell 2.0
GPU Name
GF116
GM206
Generation
GeForce 500M
GeForce 900
Process Size
40 nm
28 nm
Transistors
1,170 million
2,940 million
Die Size
238 mm²
228 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
4.9M / mm²
12.9M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
—
1.4
OpenCL
1.1
3.0
CUDA
2.1
5.2
Shader Model
5.1
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
MXM Module
Dual-slot
Length
—
241 mm
9.5 inches
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
—
199 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 400M
GeForce 700
Successor
GeForce 600M
GeForce 10