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Nvidia GeForce GTX 960
GPUBoss recommends the Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 based on its benchmarks and compute performance.
See full details GeForce GTX 960 vs 745 |
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GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 960 vs 745 among Desktop GPUs
Gaming | |
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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 | |
Performance per Watt | |
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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 | |
Noise and Power | |
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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 higher effective memory clock speed | 7,012 MHz | vs | 1,800 MHz | Around 4x higher effective memory clock speed | |||
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| Significantly better PassMark score | 5,813 | vs | 2,167 | Around 2.8x better PassMark score | |||
| Significantly higher memory bandwidth | 112.2 GB/s | vs | 28.8 GB/s | Around 4x higher memory bandwidth | |||
| Better floating-point performance | 2,308.1 GFLOPS | vs | 793.3 GFLOPS | Around 3x better floating-point performance | |||
| Higher clock speed | 1,127 MHz | vs | 1,033 MHz | Around 10% higher clock speed | |||
| Much better cloud gate factor score | 20.16 | vs | 13.47 | Around 50% better cloud gate factor score | |||
| Higher texture rate | 72.1 GTexel/s | vs | 24.79 GTexel/s | Around 3x higher texture rate | |||
| Much higher memory clock speed | 1,753 MHz | vs | 900 MHz | Around 95% higher memory clock speed | |||
| Higher pixel rate | 36.1 GPixel/s | vs | 16.53 GPixel/s | Around 2.2x higher pixel rate | |||
| More render output processors | 32 | vs | 16 | Twice as many render output processors | |||
| More shading units | 1,024 | vs | 384 | 640 more shading units | |||
| More texture mapping units | 64 | vs | 24 | 40 more texture mapping units | |||
| Significantly better PassMark direct compute score | 3,046 | vs | 1,048 | Around 3x better PassMark direct compute score | |||
| Better T-Rex score | 3.92 frames/s | vs | 1.6 frames/s | Around 2.5x better T-Rex score | |||
| Higher turbo clock speed | 1,178 MHz | vs | 1,085 MHz | Around 10% higher turbo clock speed | |||
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| More memory | 4,096 MB | vs | 2,048 MB | 2x more memory | |||
| Lower TDP | 55W | vs | 120W | 2.2x lower TDP | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of GeForce GTX 960 vs 745
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench
Ocean surface simulation Data courtesy CompuBench
Particle simulation Data courtesy CompuBench
T-Rex (Compubench 1.5) 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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