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 K80
CORE STATE
GK210
VRAM
12 GB
CLOCK SPEED
824 MHz
TDP
300 W
BUS WIDTH
384 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Kepler 2.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2014
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
GTX 960
Tesla K80
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,024
2,496
+143.8%
Shaders
1,024
2,496
+143.8%
TMUs
64
208
+225.0%
ROPs
32
48
+50.0%
Clocks
Base Clock
1127 MHz
562 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
824 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
7 Gbps effective
1253 MHz
5 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
240.6 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
42.85 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
75.39 GTexel/s
171.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.413 TFLOPS
4.113 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)
1,371.1 GFLOPS (1:3)
Power
TDP
120 W
300 W
TDP (W)
120
300
+150.0%
Suggested PSU
300 W
700 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Kepler 2.0
GPU Name
GM206
GK210
Generation
GeForce 900
Tesla Kepler
(Kxx)
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2,940 million
7,100 million
Die Size
228 mm²
561 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
12.9M / mm²
12.7M / 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
3.7
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
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Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 700
Tesla Fermi
Successor
GeForce 10
Tesla Maxwell