UserBenchmark: Nvidia GeForce 9600 GS vs GTX 960

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Best Bench: 36% EVGA(3842 2966)
Worst Bench: 30% HP(103C 2B4D) 2GB

Poor: 30% Great: 36%

SPEED RANK: 166^th / 713

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Best Bench: 3% Device(1B0A 9015) 768MB
Worst Bench: 2% Device(1B0A 9015) 768MB

Poor: 2% Great: 3%

SPEED RANK: 506^th / 713


Effective 3D Speed Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed		32.9 %	Insanely faster effective speed. +1,073%		2.81 %


Lighting Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	42.1 fps	Insanely better lighting effects. +1,184%	3.28 fps
Reflection Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	45.5 fps	Hugely better reflection handling. +683%	5.81 fps
MRender Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere)	36.3 fps	Hugely faster multi rendering. +554%	5.55 fps
Gravity Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy)	40.2 fps	Insanely faster NBody calculation. +1,603%	2.36 fps


Lighting Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	46.4 fps	Insanely better peak lighting effects. +1,233%	3.48 fps
Reflection High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	56.8 fps	Hugely better peak reflection handling. +735%	6.8 fps
MRender Render target array GShader (Sphere)	38.2 fps	Hugely faster peak multi rendering. +542%	5.95 fps
Gravity NBody particle system (Galaxy)	43.3 fps	Insanely faster peak NBody calculation. +1,704%	2.4 fps

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)		0.5 %	Insanely higher market share. +∞%		0 %
User Rating UBM User Rating		62 %	More popular. +24%		50 %


Age Newest	118 Months	Slightly more recent. +6%	126+ Months
Parallax Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	43.7 fps	Insanely better peak texture detail. +3,667%	1.16 fps
Splatting Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	37.9 fps	Hugely faster peak complex splatting. +869%	3.91 fps
Parallax Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	39.8 fps	Insanely better texture detail. +3,655%	1.06 fps
Splatting Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	35.1 fps	Hugely faster complex splatting. +889%	3.55 fps

The new GTX 960 is the third graphics card to feature Nvidia's Maxwell architecture. When the first two Maxwell cards were released back in September 2014 they completely re-shaped the GPU price/performance spectrum not only from Nvidia, but also AMD who were forced to slash prices by around 30%. Unfortunately the new GTX 960 isn't the game changer its predecessors were, and it's actually the weakest of the three Maxwell cards. Comparing the GTX 960 and 970 shows that the 970 is around 70% faster and a comparison of the GTX 960 and 980 shows that GTX 980 is almost exactly twice as fast as the 960. Of the three cards the GTX 970 offers the best bang for your buck, in-fact the GTX 970 is still one of best value cards available. That said, for gaming at 1080p or lower, the GTX 960 will allow decent frame rates at maximum settings for most games. ^{[Jan '15 GPUPro]}

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