GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

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

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2015

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

Quadro M4000

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 120 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2015

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

162

680

geekbench_metal

8,773

N/A

geekbench_opencl

18,751

20,128

geekbench_vulkan

20,495

24,640

passmark_directx_10

N/A

33

passmark_directx_11

N/A

49

passmark_directx_12

N/A

26

passmark_directx_9

N/A

113

passmark_g2d

N/A

673

passmark_g3d

N/A

6,680

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

2,660

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 960

Quadro M4000

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,024

1,664 +62.5%

Shaders

1,024

1,664 +62.5%

TMUs

64

104 +62.5%

ROPs

32

64 +100.0%

Clocks

Base Clock

1127 MHz

—

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

—

GPU Clock

—

773 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1502 MHz 6 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

8 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

8,192 +300.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

128 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

112.2 GB/s

192.3 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

1024 KB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

49.47 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

80.39 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.413 TFLOPS

2.573 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)

80.39 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

120 W

120 W

TDP (W)

120

120 0.0%

Suggested PSU

300 W

300 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

GM206

GM204

Generation

GeForce 900

Quadro Maxwell (Mx000)

Process Size

28 nm

28 nm

Transistors

2,940 million

5,200 million

Die Size

228 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.9M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

5.2

5.2

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Single-slot

Length

241 mm 9.5 inches

241 mm 9.5 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

4x DisplayPort 1.2

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 Kepler

Successor

GeForce 10

Quadro Pascal

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