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Nvidia GeForce GTX 960
GPUBoss recommends the Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 based on its benchmarks, compute performance and noise and power.
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GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 960 vs 470 among Desktop GPUs
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more | |
Graphics | |
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| T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more | |
Computing | |
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| Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
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| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
| 7.5 | Overall Score |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Much better 3DMark 11 graphics score | 32,987 | vs | 4,342 | More than 7.5x better 3DMark 11 graphics score | |||
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| Much higher effective memory clock speed | 7,012 MHz | vs | 3,348 MHz | More than 2x higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| Significantly better 3DMark vantage graphics score | 32,171 | vs | 15,350 | More than 2x better 3DMark vantage graphics score | |||
| Significantly higher clock speed | 1,127 MHz | vs | 700 MHz | More than 60% higher clock speed | |||
| Better PassMark score | 5,813 | vs | 3,607 | More than 60% better PassMark score | |||
| Much higher battlefield 3 framerate | 80 | vs | 30 | Around 2.8x higher battlefield 3 framerate | |||
| Better floating-point performance | 2,308.1 GFLOPS | vs | 1,254 GFLOPS | Around 85% better floating-point performance | |||
| Much higher memory clock speed | 1,753 MHz | vs | 837 MHz | More than 2x higher memory clock speed | |||
| Higher pixel rate | 36.1 GPixel/s | vs | 19.6 GPixel/s | Around 85% higher pixel rate | |||
| Slightly more memory | 2,048 MB | vs | 1,280 MB | 60% more memory | |||
| Higher texture rate | 72.1 GTexel/s | vs | 39.2 GTexel/s | Around 85% higher texture rate | |||
| Significantly higher BioShock infinite framerate | 75.8 fps | vs | 32.8 fps | More than 2.2x higher BioShock infinite framerate | |||
| More shading units | 1,024 | vs | 448 | 576 more shading units | |||
| Significantly better PassMark direct compute score | 3,046 | vs | 1,340 | More than 2.2x better PassMark direct compute score | |||
| Better cloud gate factor score | 20.16 | vs | 17.95 | More than 10% better cloud gate factor score | |||
| Slightly better T-Rex score | 3.92 frames/s | vs | 3.26 frames/s | Around 20% better T-Rex score | |||
| Significantly lower TDP | 120W | vs | 215W | Around 45% lower TDP | |||
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| Much better 3DMark06 score | 22,622 | vs | 10,767.5 | More than 2x better 3DMark06 score | |||
| Higher memory bandwidth | 133.9 GB/s | vs | 112.2 GB/s | Around 20% higher memory bandwidth | |||
| Significantly wider memory bus | 320 bit | vs | 128 bit | 2.5x wider memory bus | |||
| More render output processors | 40 | vs | 32 | 8 more render output processors | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of GeForce GTX 960 vs 470
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench
Ocean surface simulation Data courtesy CompuBench
Fire Strike Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Cloud Gate Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
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