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 K6000
CORE STATE
GK110B
VRAM
12 GB
CLOCK SPEED
902 MHz
TDP
225 W
BUS WIDTH
384 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Kepler
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2013
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
GTX 960
Quadro K6000
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
797 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
902 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
7 Gbps effective
1502 MHz
6 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
12 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
12,288
+500.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128 bit
384 bit
Bandwidth
112.2 GB/s
288.4 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
54.12 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
75.39 GTexel/s
216.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.413 TFLOPS
5.196 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)
1.732 TFLOPS (1:3)
Power
TDP
120 W
225 W
TDP (W)
120
225
+87.5%
Suggested PSU
300 W
550 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Kepler
GPU Name
GM206
GK110B
Generation
GeForce 900
Quadro Kepler
(Kx000)
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 DVI2x DisplayPort 1.2
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
199 USD
5,265 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 700
Quadro Fermi
Successor
GeForce 10
Quadro Maxwell