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 GP100
CORE STATE
GP100
VRAM
16 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1443 MHz
TDP
235 W
BUS WIDTH
4096 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Pascal
PROCESS
16 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2016
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
GTX 960
Quadro GP100
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
1304 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1443 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
7 Gbps effective
715 MHz
1430 Mbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
16 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
16,384
+700.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2
Memory Bus
128 bit
4096 bit
Bandwidth
112.2 GB/s
732.2 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
24 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
4 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
37.70 GPixel/s
138.5 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
75.39 GTexel/s
323.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.413 TFLOPS
10.34 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)
5.172 TFLOPS (1:2)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
20.69 TFLOPS (2:1)
Power
TDP
120 W
235 W
TDP (W)
120
235
+95.8%
Suggested PSU
300 W
550 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Pascal
GPU Name
GM206
GP100
Generation
GeForce 900
Quadro Pascal
(Px000)
Process Size
28 nm
16 nm
Transistors
2,940 million
15,300 million
Die Size
228 mm²
610 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
12.9M / mm²
25.1M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.4
1.3
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
CUDA
5.2
6.0
Shader Model
6.8
6.0
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 DVI4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
199 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 700
Quadro Maxwell
Successor
GeForce 10
Quadro Volta