NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Price

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$ 265.00

$ 24.00 slightly less expensive

$ 289.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1419 points

2058 points

45% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

42 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

33 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS

27 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

29 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

167.72 points

284.61 points

69% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17784 points

31922 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

8773 points

13527 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points

33958 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380 points

33939 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

8773 points

13527 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points

33375 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points

32433 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz

1506 MHz

33% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

1708 MHz

44% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.2 GB/s

192.2 GB/s

71% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

Identical

120 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

37.7 Gigapixels/s

81.98 Gigapixels/s

117% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s

123 Gigatexels/s

63% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.41 TFLOPS

3.94 TFLOPS

63% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

1152

12% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

12% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 586

206th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January

2016 August

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

4.6

GeForce GTX 960 vs GeForce GTX 1060 3GB specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 960 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a slightly 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. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, both the GeForce GTX 960 and the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB have an identical TDP. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is faster than the GeForce GTX 960.