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 5000
CORE STATE
GF100
VRAM
2.5 GB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
152 W
BUS WIDTH
320 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 5000
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,024
352
-65.6%
Shaders
1,024
352
-65.6%
TMUs
64
44
-31.3%
ROPs
32
40
+25.0%
SM Count
—
11
Clocks
Base Clock
1127 MHz
—
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
—
GPU Clock
—
513 MHz
Shader Clock
—
1026 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
7 Gbps effective
750 MHz
3 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
2.5 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
5,120
+150.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128 bit
320 bit
Bandwidth
112.2 GB/s
120.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
640 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
37.70 GPixel/s
11.29 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
75.39 GTexel/s
22.57 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.413 TFLOPS
722.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)
361.2 GFLOPS (1:2)
Power
TDP
120 W
152 W
TDP (W)
120
152
+26.7%
Suggested PSU
300 W
450 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Fermi
GPU Name
GM206
GF100
Generation
GeForce 900
Quadro Fermi
(x000)
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
2,940 million
3,100 million
Die Size
228 mm²
529 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
2.0
Shader Model
6.8
5.1
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
241 mm
9.5 inches
248 mm
9.8 inches
Height
—
111 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI2x DisplayPort
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
199 USD
2,499 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 700
Quadro FX Tesla
Successor
GeForce 10
Quadro Kepler