NVIDIA has released the GeForce GTX 960, the company’s latest Maxwell-powered GPU. The GTX 960 offers the same performance and technologies of its big brother, the GTX 980, but at a more affordable $199 price point.
NVIDIA’s new GPU supports Maxwell’s advanced technologies like dynamic super resolution (DSR), which provides a 4K experience on a 1080p monitor, and multi-frame anti-aliasing†(MFAA), which offers high-quality anti-aliasing with improved performance. The GTX 960 is powered by 1,024 CUDA cores, while delivering 60 frames per second on full HD 1080p displays.
The GPU’s graphics capabilities include support for Microsoft’s next-generation DirectX 12 standard, due this year with Windows 10. Specifications of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 include:
Engine
- CUDA Cores:† 1024
- Base Clock (MHz):† 1127
- Boost Clock (MHz):† 1178
- Texture Fill Rate (GigaTexels/sec):† 72
Memory
- Memory Clock: 7.0 Gbps
- Standard Memory: 2 GB
- Memory Interface: GDDR5
- Memory Interface Width: 128-bit
- Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec): 112
Technology Support
- (2-way) NVIDIA SLI Ready
- NVIDIA G-Sync-Ready
- NVIDIA GameStream-Ready
- GeForce ShadowPlay
- 2.0 NVIDIA GPU Boost
- Dynamic Super Resolution
- MFAA
- NVIDIA GameWorks
- Microsoft DirectX: 12 API
- OpenGL: 4.4
- CUDA
- Bus Support: PCI Express 3.0
- OS Certification: Windows 8 & 8.1, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Linux, FreeBSD x86
Display Support
- Maximum Digital Resolution: 5120×3200
- Maximum VGA Resolution: 2048×1536
- Standard Display Connectors: Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
- Multi Monitor: 4 displays
- HDCP
- Input for HDMI: InternalAudio
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