GeForce GTX 960 and Quadro 4000 Mac Edition - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 960
Quadro 4000 Mac Edition
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
GM206
GF100
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
January 2015
June 2011
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
400 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pins
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1127 MHz
475 MHz
CUDA cores
1024
-
Floating-point performance
2,413 gflops
486.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
3,100 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
256
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
142 Watt
Texture fill rate
72 billion/sec
15.20
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1792 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
2808 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
89.86 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
+
2.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
+
N/A
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-