GeForce GTX 960
11D
Memory2 GB
Memory TypeGDDR5
Boost Clock1178 MHz
TGP120 W
ArchitectureMaxwell 2.0
Launch Price$199
Benchmarks
Gaming8
Render16
TFLOPS (FP32)2.4
Geekbench OpenCL20,370
3DMarkTime Spy2302
Steel Nomad Lite Score2179
GB6 Compute Score20,370
G3D Mark Score6150
Blender GPU166.86
GB6 ML Single Precision3784
GB6 ML Half Precision3830
GB6 ML Quantized2724
FLOPS (FP32)2.4 TFLOPS
Memory Bandwidth112.2 GB/s
Full specifications
3D Mark
Time Spy
2302
Fire Strike
7720
Wild Life Extreme
4543
Night Raid
31121
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
Background Blur
51.7 img/sec
Face Detection
26.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection
0.84 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection
1.36 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur
1.26 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching
0.14 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching
64.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics
1825 FPS
API
OpenCL
Passmark Graphics
G2D Mark
677
DirectX 11
42 FPS
DirectX 12
28 FPS
GPU Compute
2801 Ops/s
GeekBench 6 ML
Image Classification (SP)
1492
Image Segmentation (HP)
2183
Image Super Resolution (Q)
3618
Face Detection (HP)
3654
Pose Estimation (Q)
11306
Text Classification (SP)
1315
Machine Translation (HP)
2085
Object Detection (SP)
1927
Depth Estimation (Q)
5491
Style Transfer (SP)
22683
Framework
ONNX
Backend
DirectML
General
Vendor
Nvidia
Build
Discrete
Released
January 22, 2015
Launch price (MSRP)
$199
Case
Desktop
Purpose
Gaming
Segment
Mid-range
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
GPU Codename
GM206
Graphics Processing Unit
Base Clock
1127 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
Shading Units
1024
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs)
64
Render Output Units (ROPs)
32
Compute Units (Pipelines)
8
Tensor Cores
No
Ray-tracing Cores
No
L1 Cache
48KB per cluster
L2 Cache
1MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle
2 IPC
Raw Performance
Pixel Fill Rate
38 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate
75 GTexel/s
Physical
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP
120 W
Manufacturing
TSMC
Fabrication Process
28 nm
Die Size
228 mm²
Transistor Count
2 billion
Transistor Density
8.77 MTr/mm²
Memory
Memory Type
GDDR5
Memory Size
2 GB
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Effective Memory Speed
7000 Mbps
Bus
128-bit
ECC
No
API
DirectX
12
Vulkan
1.3
OpenGL
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
CUDA
5.2
Ray Tracing
No
DLSS
No
DisplayPort
1.2
Specifications compiled from NanoReview. Last updated 2026-09-29.
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