NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1419 points
37% slightly better overall score
1029 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS
6 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
23 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS
7 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
14 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS
4 FPS slightly higher City frame rate
16 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS
6 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
12 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2293 points
37% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
1673 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

167.72 points
6% slightly higher Blender score
157.20 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17784 points
66% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
10683 points
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

8773 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
6570 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points
55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
13578 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380 points
72% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
12985 points
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

8773 points
11467 points
30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points
40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
14136 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points
44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
14394 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz
15% slightly higher core clock speed
980 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz
14% slightly higher boost clock speed
1032 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB
Identical
4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
256 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

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

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W
41% slightly lower TDP
170 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

37.7 Gigapixels/s
52% significantly higher pixel rate
24.77 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s
99.07 Gigatexels/s
31% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.41 TFLOPS
1% slightly better floating point performance
2.38 TFLOPS

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

64
96
49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
Identical
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 586
262nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January
2016 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.5

GeForce GTX 960 vs GeForce GTX 760 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 960 beats the GeForce GTX 760 in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 960 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 960 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 960 has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 760 at 170 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 960 over the GeForce GTX 760.

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