NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

Price

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$ 335.00

$ 265.00

$ 70.00 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points

46% significantly better overall score

1419 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

29 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

22 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

20 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

17 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

58% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2293 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

121% significantly higher Blender score

167.72 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31129 points

75% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

17784 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

8773 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

21072 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

22380 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

8773 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

19796 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

20845 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

51% significantly higher core clock speed

1127 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

49% significantly more memory

4 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

Identical

120 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

239th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce GTX 960 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 960 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1060 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 1060 has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, both the GeForce GTX 1060 and the GeForce GTX 960 have an identical TDP. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1060 is faster than the GeForce GTX 960.