NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2015
May 2018
Generation
GeForce 900
GeForce 10
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1127 MHz
1392 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1518 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
1752 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
96bit
Bandwidth
112.2GB/s
84.10GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1024
768
TMUs
64
48
ROPs
32
24
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
768 KB
SM Count
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6
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
37.70 GPixel/s
36.43 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
75.39 GTexel/s
72.86 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.413 TFLOPS
2.332 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
75.39 GFLOPS
72.86 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
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36.43 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM206
GP107
GPU Variant
GM206-300-A1
GP107-301-K1-A1
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Pascal
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
2.94 billion
3.3 billion
Die Size
228 mm²
132 mm²
Board Design
TDP
120W
75W
Suggested PSU
300 W
250 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.01x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
5.2
6.1
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
2,300
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,025
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
10
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
25
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
35
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GTA 5 1080p
70
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.