With current 2048 MB RAM, the GTX 960 can have serious memory-related bottlenecks in more modern games. With current 2048 MB RAM, the GTX 960 can have very few memory-related bottlenecks in more modern games.
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 | ||
| Price | $ 89.0 | |
| Year | 2015 | |
| Maximum Recorded Temperature | 75C | |
| Max Fan Noise | 40dB | |
| Recommended Power Supply | 470W | |
| Benchmark CPU | Intel Core i7-4790K @ 4.00GHz ($306.99) | |
| CPU Impact on FPS | + 0.0 FPS | |
| CPU Impact on FPS % | 0.0% | |
| Benchmark Quality Settings | Ultra Quality Settings | |
| Average 1080p Performance | 38.0 FPS | |
| Average 1440p Performance | 27.5 FPS | |
| (Ultrawide) Average 1440p Performance | 23.4 FPS | |
| Average 4K Performance | 16.3 FPS | |
| Memory | 2 GB | |
| 1080p Cost Per Frame | $ 5.2 | |
| 1440p Cost Per Frame | $ 7.2 | |
| (Ultrawide) 1440p Cost Per Frame | $ 8.5 | |
| 4K Cost Per Frame | $ 12.2 | |
| Series | GTX 960 | |
| Variant | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 | |
| Overall Combination Score | 64/100 | Good |
| Board Number | PG301 |
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| Length | 9.5 inches 241 mm |
| Outputs | 1x DVI1x HDMI3x DisplayPort |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin |
| Slot Width | Dual-slot |
| TDP | 120 W |
| Boost Clock | 1178 MHz |
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| GPU Clock | 1127 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1753 MHz 7012 MHz effective |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
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| Generation | GeForce 900 |
| Launch Price | 199 USD |
| Production | Active |
| Release Date | Jan 22nd, 2015 |
| CUDA | 5.2 |
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| DirectX | 12.0 (12_1) |
| OpenCL | 1.2 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 |
| Shader Model | 6.1 |
| Vulkan | 1.1.82 |
| Architecture | Maxwell 2.0 |
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| Die Size | 228 mm² |
| GPU Name | GM206 |
| GPU Variant | GM206-300-A1 |
| Process Size | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 2,940 million |
| Bandwidth | 112.2 GB/s |
|---|---|
| Memory Bus | 128 bit |
| Memory Size | 2048 MB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 |
| ROPs | 32 |
|---|---|
| SMM Count | 8 |
| Shading Units | 1024 |
| TMUs | 64 |
| FP32 (float) performance | 2,413 GFLOPS |
|---|---|
| FP64 (double) performance | 75.39 GFLOPS (1:32) |
| Pixel Rate | 37.70 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 75.39 GTexel/s |