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
Tesla K20Xm
CORE STATE
GK110
VRAM
6 GB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
235 W
BUS WIDTH
384 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Kepler
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2012
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
GTX 960
Tesla K20Xm
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,024
2,688
+162.5%
Shaders
1,024
2,688
+162.5%
TMUs
64
224
+250.0%
ROPs
32
48
+50.0%
Clocks
Base Clock
1127 MHz
—
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
—
GPU Clock
—
732 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
7 Gbps effective
1300 MHz
5.2 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
6 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
6,144
+200.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128 bit
384 bit
Bandwidth
112.2 GB/s
249.6 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
40.99 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
75.39 GTexel/s
164.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.413 TFLOPS
3.935 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)
1,311.7 GFLOPS (1:3)
Power
TDP
120 W
235 W
TDP (W)
120
235
+95.8%
Suggested PSU
300 W
550 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
—
Architecture
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Kepler
GPU Name
GM206
GK110
Generation
GeForce 900
Tesla Kepler
(Kxx)
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_0)
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
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
199 USD
7,699 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 700
Tesla Fermi
Successor
GeForce 10
Tesla Maxwell