NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q 6 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

3514 points

147% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

75 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

52 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS

56 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

37 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2293 points

5621 points

145% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

167.72 points

1382.74 points

724% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17784 points

67657 points

280% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points

61701 points

192% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380 points

51683 points

130% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points

64897 points

227% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points

59548 points

185% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz

15% slightly higher core clock speed

975 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

1185 MHz

0.59% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

6 GiB

49% significantly more memory

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

264 GB/s

135% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

65 W

84% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

37.7 Gigapixels/s

56.88 Gigapixels/s

50% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s

142.2 Gigatexels/s

88% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.41 TFLOPS

4.55 TFLOPS

88% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

1920

87% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

87% significantly 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

138th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January

2020 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

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 RTX 2060 Max-Q comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 960 in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 960 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q has a slightly 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 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 RTX 2060 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 960 at 120 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q is better than the GeForce GTX 960.