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 M10
CORE STATE
GM107
VRAM
8 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1306 MHz
TDP
225 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2016
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
GTX 960
Tesla M10
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,024
640
-37.5%
Shaders
1,024
640
-37.5%
TMUs
64
40
-37.5%
ROPs
32
16
-50.0%
Clocks
Base Clock
1127 MHz
1033 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1306 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
7 Gbps effective
1300 MHz
5.2 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
128 bit
Bandwidth
112.2 GB/s
83.20 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
64 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
2 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
37.70 GPixel/s
20.90 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
75.39 GTexel/s
52.24 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.413 TFLOPS
1.672 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)
52.24 GFLOPS (1:32)
Power
TDP
120 W
225 W
TDP (W)
120
225
+87.5%
Suggested PSU
300 W
550 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Maxwell
GPU Name
GM206
GM107
Generation
GeForce 900
Tesla Maxwell
(Mxx)
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2,940 million
1,870 million
Die Size
228 mm²
148 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
1.4
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
CUDA
5.2
5.0
Shader Model
6.8
6.7 (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
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Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 700
Tesla Kepler
Successor
GeForce 10
Tesla Pascal