NVIDIA
GeForce GTX 960
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Overview
The GeForce GTX 960 is a Maxwell-architecture mid-range GPU released in early 2015 as the mainstream entry point into NVIDIA's GTX 900 series. It replaced the GTX 760 at similar price points, bringing the power efficiency gains of Maxwell to the mid-range segment.
The GTX 960 features 2GB of GDDR5 memory and a TDP of 120W, requiring a single 8-pin or dual 6-pin power connector. Maxwell's architectural improvements gave it notably better performance-per-watt than the Kepler cards it succeeded, though the 2GB frame buffer proved constraining for some titles even at launch. It carries no hardware ray-tracing cores, no Tensor cores, and no DLSS.
The GTX 960 was designed for 1080p gaming at high settings and represented good value at its release price. A 4GB variant was also available for users concerned about VRAM limits. Today it is a legacy card, appropriate only for very modest use cases or as a stopgap in older systems.
Technical Specifications
Architecture & Cores
- Architecture
- Maxwell
- Process Node
- TSMC 28nm
- CUDA Cores
- 1,024
Clock Speeds
- Base Clock
- 1,127 MHz
- Boost Clock
- 1,178 MHz
Memory
- VRAM Capacity
- 2 GB
- Memory Type
- GDDR5
- Memory Bus
- 128-bit
- Memory Speed
- 7 Gbps
- Bandwidth
- 112 GB/s
Connectivity & Power
- Interface
- PCIe 3.0 x16
- TDP
- 120 W
- Power Connectors
- 1x 6-pin
- Released
- Jan 22, 2015