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Nvidia GeForce GTX 960
GPUBoss recommends the Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 based on its gaming, benchmarks and compute performance.
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Released March, 2015
Nvidia GeForce GTX 960M
- 1.1 GHz
- 2 GB GDDR5
6.6 Out of 10
by Anthony-Garreffa (Jan, 2015)Performance (overclocking, power)95%Quality (build, cooling, design)90%General Features (display outputs, etc)90%Bundle, Packaging & Software90%Value for Money99% Overall TweakTown Rating93% The Bottom Line: ZOTAC has crafted such a great video card in the GeForce GTX 960 AMP!
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Released January, 2015
Nvidia GeForce GTX 960
- 1.1 GHz
- 2 GB GDDR5
7.4 Out of 10
by techPowerUp!Gigabyte has crammed three DisplayPorts, two DVI ports, and an HDMI port onto their board, which is more than anyone else.
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 960M vs 960 among all 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 | |
Performance per Watt | |
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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 | |
| 7.4 | Overall Score |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Better video composition score | 51.98 frames/s | vs | 25.99 frames/s | More than 2x better video composition score | |||
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| Lower TDP | 75W | vs | 120W | Around 40% lower TDP | |||
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| Significantly better PassMark score | 5,813 | vs | 2,043 | More than 2.8x better PassMark score | |||
| Better 3DMark 11 graphics score | 32,987 | vs | 23,777.5 | Around 40% better 3DMark 11 graphics score | |||
| Better 3DMark06 score | 10,767.5 | vs | 5,277 | More than 2x better 3DMark06 score | |||
| Higher effective memory clock speed | 7,012 MHz | vs | 5,012 MHz | Around 40% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| Higher pixel rate | 36.1 GPixel/s | vs | 17.55 GPixel/s | More than 2x higher pixel rate | |||
| Better floating-point performance | 2,308.1 GFLOPS | vs | 1,404.2 GFLOPS | Around 65% better floating-point performance | |||
| Higher memory bandwidth | 112.2 GB/s | vs | 80.2 GB/s | Around 40% higher memory bandwidth | |||
| More render output processors | 32 | vs | 16 | Twice as many render output processors | |||
| Significantly higher memory clock speed | 1,753 MHz | vs | 1,253 MHz | Around 40% higher memory clock speed | |||
| Higher texture rate | 72.1 GTexel/s | vs | 43.9 GTexel/s | Around 65% higher texture rate | |||
| Better cloud gate factor score | 20.16 | vs | 17.8 | Around 15% better cloud gate factor score | |||
| Higher thief framerate | 50.6 | vs | 27.8 | More than 80% higher thief framerate | |||
| Better PassMark direct compute score | 3,046 | vs | 1,479 | More than 2x better PassMark direct compute score | |||
| Higher crysis 3 framerate | 36.1 fps | vs | 20.75 fps | Around 75% higher crysis 3 framerate | |||
| Higher BioShock infinite framerate | 75.8 fps | vs | 45.3 fps | More than 65% higher BioShock infinite framerate | |||
| More shading units | 1,024 | vs | 640 | 384 more shading units | |||
| More texture mapping units | 64 | vs | 40 | 24 more texture mapping units | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of GeForce GTX 960M vs 960
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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