GPU Comparison
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
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2015
VS
GEFORCE
PG506-232
CORE STATE
GA100
VRAM
24 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1440 MHz
TDP
165 W
BUS WIDTH
3072 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Ampere
PROCESS
7 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2021
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
GTX 960
PG506-232
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,024
3,584
+250.0%
Shaders
1,024
3,584
+250.0%
TMUs
64
224
+250.0%
ROPs
32
96
+200.0%
SM Count
—
56
Clocks
Base Clock
1127 MHz
930 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1440 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
7 Gbps effective
1215 MHz
2.4 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
24 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
24,576
+1100.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2
Memory Bus
128 bit
3072 bit
Bandwidth
112.2 GB/s
933.1 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
192 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
24 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
37.70 GPixel/s
138.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
75.39 GTexel/s
322.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.413 TFLOPS
10.32 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)
5.161 TFLOPS (1:2)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
10.32 TFLOPS (1:1)
AI/RT
Tensor Cores
—
224
Power
TDP
120 W
165 W
TDP (W)
120
165
+37.5%
Suggested PSU
300 W
450 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
8-pin EPS
Architecture
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Ampere
GPU Name
GM206
GA100
Generation
GeForce 900
Server Ampere
(Axx)
Process Size
28 nm
7 nm
Transistors
2,940 million
54,200 million
Die Size
228 mm²
826 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
12.9M / mm²
65.6M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_1)
—
OpenGL
4.6
—
Vulkan
1.4
—
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
CUDA
5.2
8.0
Shader Model
6.8
—
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
241 mm
9.5 inches
267 mm
10.5 inches
Height
—
112 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
199 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 700
Tesla Turing
Successor
GeForce 10
Server Ada