NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1789 points
26% slightly better overall score
1419 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

37 FPS
7 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
29 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

30 FPS
8 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
22 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

25 FPS
5 FPS slightly higher City frame rate
20 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS
5 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
18 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3292 points
43% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
2293 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

347.28 points
107% significantly higher Blender score
167.72 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

28312 points
59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
17784 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29934 points
42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
21072 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32085 points
43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
22380 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32446 points
63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
19796 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

29492 points
41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
20845 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1480 MHz
31% slightly higher core clock speed
1127 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1480 MHz
25% slightly higher boost clock speed
1178 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB
49% significantly more memory
4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
49% significantly larger memory bus width
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s
71% significantly higher memory bandwidth
112.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W
49% significantly lower TDP
120 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

71.04 Gigapixels/s
88% significantly higher pixel rate
37.7 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

118.4 Gigatexels/s
57% significantly higher texture rate
75.39 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.79 TFLOPS
57% significantly better floating point performance
2.41 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280
25% slightly more shading units
1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

80
25% slightly more texture mapping units
64

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
49% significantly more render output processors
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

223rd of 592
242nd of 592

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June
2015 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.5

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