
GeForce GTX 960 and Quadro M2000 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 960 vs Quadro M2000
GeForce GTX 960
6254
Quadro M2000
4104
GeForce GTX 960
Quadro M2000
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
GM206
GM206
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
January 2015
April 2016
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
400 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pins
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
1163 MHz
Core clock speed
1127 MHz
796 MHz
CUDA cores
1024
-
Floating-point performance
2,413 gflops
1,812 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
2,940 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
768
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
72 billion/sec
55.82
Memory type
GDDR5
128 Bit
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
6612 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
Up to 106 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
DP DP DP DP
Number of simultaneous displays
-
4
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12
CUDA
+
5.2
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.5
Shader Model
6.4
5
Vulkan
+
+
3D Vision Pro
-
+
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
Mosaic
-
+
nView Desktop Management
-
+