NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

640 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.3GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 +184%

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560 OEM

0.848 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

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GeForce GTX 560 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Nov 2011

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 500

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

802 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

320bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

128.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

-

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

384

64

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

40

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

640 KB

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.25 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

26.50 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

847.9 GFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

106.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GF110

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

GF110-040-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

3 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

2.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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