NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 32MB VRAM GeForce2 GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages
Released 14 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 5.312GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Jan 2015
Release Date
Apr 2000
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 2
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
1127 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
166 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
32MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
112.2GB/s
Bandwidth
5.312GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
1024
Shading Units
-
64
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
37.70 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
800.0 MPixel/s
75.39 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1.600 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.413 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
75.39 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
120W
TDP
Unknown
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x VGA
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
NV15
GM206-300-A1
GPU Variant
GeForce2 GTS
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Celsius
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
180 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
0.025 billion
228 mm²
Die Size
88 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
7.0
4.6
OpenGL
1.5
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
-
