NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 768GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 86.40GB/s)

688 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 160W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 +166%

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460

0.907 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

VS

GeForce GTX 460

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Jul 2010

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

86.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

7

1024

Shading Units

336

64

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

24

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.450 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.80 GTexel/s

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

907.2 GFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.60 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

160W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GF104

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

GF104-300-KB-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

2.1

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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