NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1188MHz vs 1178MHz)

Lower TDP (90W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 +32%

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 960 +22%

2284

GeForce GTX 950

1869

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 960 +100%

10

GeForce GTX 950

5

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 960 +25%

25

GeForce GTX 950

20

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 960 +16%

35

GeForce GTX 950

30

GeForce GTX 960

VS

GeForce GTX 950

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Aug 2015

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1024 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1188 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

105.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

768

64

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.02 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.02 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.825 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.02 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GM206

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

GM206-250-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

90W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

5.2

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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