NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770

Price

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$ 265.00

$ 23.88 slightly less expensive

$ 288.88

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1419 points

6% slightly better overall score

1335 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

31 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

20 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS

22 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

16 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2293 points

6% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2160 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

167.72 points

200.67 points

19% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17784 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

13824 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

8773 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

8636 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

17483 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

17236 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

8773 points

9056 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

18039 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

19070 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz

7% slightly higher core clock speed

1046 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

8% slightly higher boost clock speed

1085 MHz

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

224.4 GB/s

100% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

91% significantly lower TDP

230 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

37.7 Gigapixels/s

8% slightly higher pixel rate

34.72 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s

138.9 Gigatexels/s

84% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.41 TFLOPS

3.33 TFLOPS

38% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

1536

49% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 586

241st 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

4.6

GeForce GTX 960 vs GeForce GTX 770 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 960 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 770 in gaming.

Our database shows that 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.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 960 has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 770 at 230 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 960 is better than the GeForce GTX 770.