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 TITAN BLACK

CORE STATE GK110B

VRAM 6 GB

CLOCK SPEED 980 MHz

TDP 250 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE Kepler

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

162

N/A

geekbench_metal

8,773

24,172

geekbench_opencl

18,751

27,076

geekbench_vulkan

20,495

28,810

passmark_directx_10

N/A

47

passmark_directx_11

N/A

73

passmark_directx_12

N/A

34

passmark_directx_9

N/A

133

passmark_g2d

N/A

595

passmark_g3d

N/A

9,184

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

3,726

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 960

GTX TITAN BLACK

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,024

2,880 +181.3%

Shaders

1,024

2,880 +181.3%

TMUs

64

240 +275.0%

ROPs

32

48 +50.0%

Clocks

Base Clock

1127 MHz

889 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

980 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

6 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

6,144 +200.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

128 bit

384 bit

Bandwidth

112.2 GB/s

336.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

16 KB (per SMX)

L2 Cache

1024 KB

1536 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

58.80 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

235.2 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.413 TFLOPS

5.645 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)

1.882 TFLOPS (1:3)

Power

TDP

120 W

250 W

TDP (W)

120

250 +108.3%

Suggested PSU

300 W

600 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Kepler

GPU Name

GM206

GK110B

Generation

GeForce 900

GeForce 700

Process Size

28 nm

28 nm

Transistors

2,940 million

7,080 million

Die Size

228 mm²

561 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.9M / mm²

12.6M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (11_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.2.175

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

5.2

3.5

Shader Model

6.8

6.5 (5.1)

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

2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

199 USD

999 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

GeForce 600

Successor

GeForce 10

GeForce 900

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