GeForce GT 555M and GeForce GTX 960 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce GT 555M
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
N12E-GE-B
GM206
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
November 2015
Bus support
PCI Express 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
753 MHz
1201 MHz
Core clock speed
Up to 753 MHz
924 MHz
CUDA cores
Up to 144
-
Floating-point performance
388.8 gflops
2,460 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,170 million
2,940 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
144
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
Up to 16.2 billion/sec
76.86
Memory type
DDR3\DDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
Up to 192 bit/128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 1569 MHz
7012 MHz
Memory bandwidth
Up to 50.2 GB/s
112.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 API
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
5.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.126
3D Blu-Ray
+
-
3D Gaming
+
-
Optimus
+
-