NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

688 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 560

1.089 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 +121%

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

May 2011

Release Date

Jan 2015

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1127 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

7

SM Count

-

336

Shading Units

1024

56

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.34 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

45.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

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1089 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

90.72 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF114

GPU Name

GM206

GF114-325-A1

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.1

CUDA

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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