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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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Released January, 2015
Nvidia GeForce GTX 960
- 1.1 GHz
- 2 GB GDDR5
7.5 Out of 10
by techPowerUp!Out of the box it runs a large overclock of 1215 MHz base clock, boosting up to 1456 MHz.
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Released March, 2012
Nvidia GeForce GTX 680
- 1 GHz
- 2 GB GDDR5
6.6 Out of 10
by techPowerUp! (Apr, 2012)Overall decent overclocking, it is nice to see that there is still some additional headroom for overclocking, despite the out of the large box overclock.
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 960 vs 680 among Desktop GPUs
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more | |
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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 | 9,861 | More than 3.2x better 3DMark 11 graphics score | |||
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| Higher effective memory clock speed | 7,012 MHz | vs | 6,008 MHz | More than 15% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| Higher clock speed | 1,127 MHz | vs | 1,006 MHz | More than 10% higher clock speed | |||
| Significantly higher battlefield 3 framerate | 80 | vs | 65.5 | More than 20% higher battlefield 3 framerate | |||
| Higher memory clock speed | 1,753 MHz | vs | 1,502 MHz | More than 15% higher memory clock speed | |||
| Higher turbo clock speed | 1,178 MHz | vs | 1,058 MHz | More than 10% higher turbo clock speed | |||
| Higher BioShock infinite framerate | 75.8 fps | vs | 64.7 fps | More than 15% higher BioShock infinite framerate | |||
| Lower TDP | 120W | vs | 195W | Around 40% lower TDP | |||
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| Much better 3DMark06 score | 26,525.5 | vs | 10,767.5 | Around 2.5x better 3DMark06 score | |||
| Significantly higher memory bandwidth | 192.3 GB/s | vs | 112.2 GB/s | More than 70% higher memory bandwidth | |||
| Higher texture rate | 128.8 GTexel/s | vs | 72.1 GTexel/s | Around 80% higher texture rate | |||
| Significantly more texture mapping units | 128 | vs | 64 | Twice as many texture mapping units | |||
| Better floating-point performance | 3,090.4 GFLOPS | vs | 2,308.1 GFLOPS | Around 35% better floating-point performance | |||
| More shading units | 1,536 | vs | 1,024 | 512 more shading units | |||
| Wider memory bus | 256 bit | vs | 128 bit | 2x wider memory bus | |||
| Better video composition score | 36.48 frames/s | vs | 25.99 frames/s | More than 40% better video composition score | |||
| Better sky diver factor score | 381.6 | vs | 358.69 | More than 5% better sky diver factor score | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of GeForce GTX 960 vs 680
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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