Nvidia GeForce GTX 960

                                             

The Nvidia Geforce GTX 960 is based on Nvidia's maxwell architecture. The biggest impovement of the Maxwell architecture from it's predecessor the Kepler architecture is power saving. The GTX 960 is the successor to last year's GTX 760 which was a Kepler based GPU.

The GTX 960 requires a 400W. recommended power supply and a single 6 pin power connector is required to power the card. The card has a maximum TDP of 120W. It comes with many Nvidia exclusive features like Dynamic Super Resolution (DSR) , MFAA ,VXGI and Nvidia G-Sync. 

Dynamic Super Resolution allows you to play on a higher resolution even on a 1080p. monitor. As a result you can get upto 4k quality images on a 1080p. monitor. MFAA or Multi Frame Anti Aliasing gives you better anti aliasing like MSAA without sacrificing frame rates. MFAA gives you a 30% boost on performance compared to MSAA with nearly the same graphics. G-Sync allows you to get rid of screen tearing without any noticable frame decrease. G-Sync also requires your monitor to be G-Sync compatible. The GPU then transfers the produced number of frames to the monitor for it to display thus eliminating screen tearing.

GTX 660 vs GTX 960 Benchmark

 The Nvidia GTX 960 has 1024 CUDA cores. The reference model of the card has a base GPU clock speed of 1127 and a boost clock of 1178. It has a texture fill rate of 72 GigaTexels/s. It has a 2GB GDDR5 memory and 7.0 Gbps memory clock. It has a 128-bit memory interface and a memory bandwidth of 112 GB/s. It also features GPU Boost 2.0 which automatically increases the clock speed while running cool. It has support for Microsoft DirectX 12 and OpenGL 4.4. The card supports upto 2-way SLI. The card launched at a $200 price point. Various non-reference versions of the card have also been released. The card was released on 22 January, 2015.

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