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
Quadro 3000M
CORE STATE
GF104
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
75 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Fermi
PROCESS
40 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2011
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
GTX 960
Quadro 3000M
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,024
240
-76.6%
Shaders
1,024
240
-76.6%
TMUs
64
40
-37.5%
ROPs
32
32
0.0%
SM Count
—
5
Clocks
Base Clock
1127 MHz
—
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
—
GPU Clock
—
450 MHz
Shader Clock
—
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
7 Gbps effective
625 MHz
2.5 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
2 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
2,048
0.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
112.2 GB/s
80.00 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
512 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
37.70 GPixel/s
4.500 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
75.39 GTexel/s
18.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.413 TFLOPS
432.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)
36.00 GFLOPS (1:12)
Power
TDP
120 W
75 W
TDP (W)
120
75
-37.5%
Suggested PSU
300 W
—
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Fermi
GPU Name
GM206
GF104
Generation
GeForce 900
Quadro Fermi-M
(x000M)
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
2,940 million
1,950 million
Die Size
228 mm²
332 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
12.9M / mm²
5.9M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.4
—
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
CUDA
5.2
2.1
Shader Model
6.8
5.1
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
MXM Module
Length
241 mm
9.5 inches
—
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Other
Launch Price
199 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 700
Quadro FX Mobile
Successor
GeForce 10
Quadro Kepler-M