GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

CORE STATE GM206

VRAM 2 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1178 MHz

TDP 120 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2015

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 980

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1216 MHz

TDP 165 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

162

474

geekbench_metal

8,773

15,163

geekbench_opencl

18,751

33,457

geekbench_vulkan

20,495

38,172

passmark_directx_10

N/A

53

passmark_directx_11

N/A

83

passmark_directx_12

N/A

46

passmark_directx_9

N/A

164

passmark_g2d

N/A

792

passmark_g3d

N/A

11,095

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

4,753

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 960

GTX 980

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,024

2,048 +100.0%

Shaders

1,024

2,048 +100.0%

TMUs

64

128 +100.0%

ROPs

32

64 +100.0%

Clocks

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1216 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

4,096 +100.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

128 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

112.2 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

1024 KB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

77.82 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.413 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)

155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

120 W

165 W

TDP (W)

120

165 +37.5%

Suggested PSU

300 W

450 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

GM206

GM204

Generation

GeForce 900

GeForce 900

Process Size

28 nm

28 nm

Transistors

2,940 million

5,200 million

Die Size

228 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.9M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

5.2

5.2

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

241 mm 9.5 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

199 USD

549 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

GeForce 700

Successor

GeForce 10

GeForce 10

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