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
T550 Mobile
CORE STATE
TU117
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1665 MHz
TDP
23 W
BUS WIDTH
64 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Turing
PROCESS
12 nm
LAUNCH DATE
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PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
GTX 960
T550 Mobile
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,024
1,024
0.0%
Shaders
1,024
1,024
0.0%
TMUs
64
64
0.0%
ROPs
32
32
0.0%
SM Count
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16
Clocks
Base Clock
1127 MHz
1065 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1665 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
7 Gbps effective
1500 MHz
12 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
4 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
4,096
+100.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
128 bit
64 bit
Bandwidth
112.2 GB/s
96.00 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
1024 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
37.70 GPixel/s
53.28 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
75.39 GTexel/s
106.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.413 TFLOPS
3.410 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)
106.6 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
6.820 TFLOPS (2:1)
Power
TDP
120 W
23 W
TDP (W)
120
23
-80.8%
Suggested PSU
300 W
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Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Turing
GPU Name
GM206
TU117
Generation
GeForce 900
Quadro Turing-M
(Tx000)
Process Size
28 nm
12 nm
Transistors
2,940 million
4,700 million
Die Size
228 mm²
200 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
12.9M / mm²
23.5M / 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
7.5
Shader Model
6.8
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
IGP
Length
241 mm
9.5 inches
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
199 USD
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Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 700
Quadro Pascal-M
Successor
GeForce 10
Ampere-MW