GeForce GTX 960 and Quadro FX 560 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 960 vs Quadro FX 560
GeForce GTX 960
6254
Quadro FX 560
116
GeForce GTX 960
Quadro FX 560
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
GM206
G73
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
January 2015
April 2006
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
400 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pins
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1127 MHz
350 MHz
CUDA cores
1024
-
Floating-point performance
2,413 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
177 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
-
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
30 Watt
Texture fill rate
72 billion/sec
4.200
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
19.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI, 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)
9.0c (9_3)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.4
2.1
Shader Model
6.4
3.0
Vulkan
+
N/A
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-