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Nvidia GeForce GTX 960
GPUBoss recommends the Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 based on its benchmarks and noise and power.
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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 |
Value | |
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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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Winner |
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Much better 3DMark06 score | 28,452 | vs | 10,767.5 | Around 2.8x better 3DMark06 score | |||
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Much higher memory bandwidth | 288 GB/s | vs | 112.2 GB/s | More than 2.5x higher memory bandwidth | |||
Better floating-point performance | 4,096 GFLOPS | vs | 2,308.1 GFLOPS | More than 75% better floating-point performance | |||
Higher texture rate | 128 GTexel/s | vs | 72.1 GTexel/s | Around 80% higher texture rate | |||
Much better bitcoin mining score | 468.39 mHash/s | vs | 111.95 mHash/s | Around 4.2x better bitcoin mining score | |||
More memory | 3,072 MB | vs | 2,048 MB | 50% more memory | |||
Significantly more shading units | 2,048 | vs | 1,024 | Twice as many shading units | |||
Significantly more texture mapping units | 128 | vs | 64 | Twice as many texture mapping units | |||
Much wider memory bus | 384 bit | vs | 128 bit | 3x wider memory bus | |||
Better sky diver factor score | 380.99 | vs | 358.69 | More than 5% better sky diver factor score | |||
Better PassMark direct compute score | 3,677 | vs | 3,046 | More than 20% better PassMark direct compute score | |||
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Much better 3DMark 11 graphics score | 32,987 | vs | 10,792 | More than 3x better 3DMark 11 graphics score | |||
Much better 3DMark vantage graphics score | 32,171 | vs | 11,255 | More than 2.8x better 3DMark vantage graphics score | |||
Higher clock speed | 1,127 MHz | vs | 850 MHz | Around 35% higher clock speed | |||
Higher effective memory clock speed | 7,012 MHz | vs | 6,000 MHz | More than 15% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
Significantly higher crysis 3 framerate | 36.1 fps | vs | 13.1 fps | More than 2.8x higher crysis 3 framerate | |||
Higher turbo clock speed | 1,178 MHz | vs | 1,000 MHz | Around 20% higher turbo clock speed | |||
Higher memory clock speed | 1,753 MHz | vs | 1,500 MHz | More than 15% higher memory clock speed | |||
Higher thief framerate | 50.6 | vs | 33.6 | More than 50% higher thief framerate | |||
Significantly lower TDP | 120W | vs | 250W | 2.1x lower TDP |
Radeon R9 280X | vs | GeForce GTX 960 | ||
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