GeForce GTX 960
Nvidia graphics card · GeForce 900 series · launched January 2015
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Launch price in today's dollars
The GeForce GTX 960 launched at $199 in 2015. Adjusted with the U.S. Consumer Price Index, that is about $278 in 2026 dollars (7-month average), a 40% rise over 11 years. At its launch price that is 81 Blender points per $100.
Method: launch price × (CPI 2026 average ÷ CPI 2015 average), calendar-year averages of BLS series CPIAUCSL. 2026 covers 7 months so far.
Blender rendering score
Median score 161 (middle half of runs 138–183) across 55 community runs on Blender 4.x with the OPTIX backend. That is #94 of 103 graphics cards in our dataset with a score, and #5 of 6 in the GeForce 900 series.
This is a rendering benchmark (samples per minute over the monster, junkshop and classroom scenes), not a gaming benchmark. It says how fast the part renders in Blender's Cycles engine and nothing about frame rates. Source: Blender Open Data, CC0, snapshot 2026-09-06.
Specifications
| Vendor | Nvidia |
|---|---|
| Series | GeForce 900 series |
| Launched | January 2015 |
| Launch price | $199 |
| Architecture | Maxwell |
| Chip | GM206-300-A1 |
| Memory | 2 GB |
| Memory type | GDDR5 |
| Memory bus | 128-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 112.2 GB/s |
| Core clock | 1,127 MHz (boost 1,178 MHz) |
| FP32 compute | 2.41 TFLOPS |
| Rated power | 120 W (TDP) |
| Transistors | 2.9 billion |
| Die size | 228 mm² |
| Tier | 60-class |
The Nvidia 60-class over time
Nvidia graphics cards in the same tier around this one, oldest first, re-releases left out. Prices in launch dollars and in 2026 dollars; scores are Blender 4.x medians where they exist.
| Part | Year | Launch price | In 2026 $ | Blender |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GeForce GTX 460 X2 | 2011 | $350 | $515 | — |
| GeForce GTX 560 | 2011 | $199 | $293 | — |
| GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 | 2011 | $289 | $425 | — |
| GeForce GTX 560 SE | 2012 | $149 | $215 | — |
| GeForce GTX 660 Ti | 2012 | $299 | $431 | — |
| GeForce GTX 660 | 2012 | $229 | $330 | 115 |
| GeForce GTX 760 | 2013 | $219 | $311 | 156 |
| GeForce GTX 760 X2 | 2013 | $600 | $852 | — |
| GeForce GTX 960 | 2015 | $199 | $278 | 161 |
| GeForce GTX 1060 | 2016 | $199 | $274 | 356 |
| GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB | 2018 | $299 | $394 | 364 |
| GeForce RTX 2060 | 2019 | $349 | $452 | 1,542 |
| GeForce GTX 1660 Ti | 2019 | $279 | $361 | 759 |
| GeForce GTX 1660 | 2019 | $219 | $283 | 690 |
| GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER | 2019 | $399 | $516 | 2,096 |
| GeForce GTX 1660 Super | 2019 | $229 | $296 | 749 |
Compare with
- GeForce GTX 950 · 2015 · $159 · 116
- GeForce GTX 1050 · 2016 · $109 · 169
- GeForce GTX 1050 Ti · 2016 · $139 · 210
- GeForce GTX 1060 · 2016 · $199 · 356
- GeForce GTX 1060 Rev. 2 · 2016 · $249
- GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 · 2014 · $229
- GeForce GTX 950 Low Power · 2016 · $159
- Radeon R9 370X · 2015 · $179
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