GeForce GTX 960 vs Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell

[ VERDICT ] Winner: Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell (98/100)

Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell leads overall with a score of 98/100 compared to GeForce GTX 960 (11/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

GeForce GTX 960
GeForce

GeForce GTX 960

11/100
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[ WINNER ]
Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
NVIDIA

Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell

98/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce GTX 960 Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Efficiency 18.0 Poor 49.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 8.0 Poor 99.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 960 Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Fire Strike 7720 75325
Night Raid 31121 214655
Time Spy 2302 42614
Wild Life Extreme 4543 110070
Port Royal — 39888
Solar Bay — 255911

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 960 Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
CUDA 5.2 12
DLSS No DLSS 4
DirectX 12 12.2
DisplayPort 1.2 2.1b
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing No Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 960 Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
1080p High 26 284
1080p Ultra 19 242
1440p Ultra 13 196
4K Ultra - 118
CoD: Modern Warfare III 30241612 305296252176
Counter-Strike 2 462919- 36226320393
Cyberpunk 2077 1411-- 25322116071
Far Cry 6 31271610 221198185112
Forza Horizon 5 291413- 309235215175
Ghost of Tsushima 15--- 206170158107
Hogwarts Legacy 181210- 23518915089
Margin of Error Low High
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 282615- 319298224121
The Witcher 3 241813- 343311216116

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 960 Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 5491 90853
Face Detection (HP) 3654 103224
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 1492 16903
Image Segmentation (HP) 2183 48518
Image Super Resolution (Q) 3618 54618
Machine Translation (HP) 2085 7291
Object Detection (SP) 1927 26498
Pose Estimation (Q) 11306 338587
Style Transfer (SP) 22683 635289
Text Classification (SP) 1315 3894

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 960 Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 51.7 img/sec 366.1 img/sec
Edge Detection 1.36 Gpixels/sec 35.2 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 26.1 img/sec 248 img/sec
Feature Matching 0.14 Gpixels/sec 2.47 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.26 Gpixels/sec 45 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 0.84 Gpixels/sec 23.3 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1825 FPS 42574.6 FPS
Stereo Matching 64.9 Gpixels/sec 3040 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 960 Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Architecture Maxwell 2.0 Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename GM206 GB202-300-A1
Launch price (MSRP) $199 $8559
Purpose Gaming Professional
Released January 22, 2015 March 18, 2026
Segment Mid-range High-end
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Recommended CPU — -AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3Dor above

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 960 Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Base Clock 1127 MHz 1590 MHz
Boost Clock 1178 MHz 2617 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 8 188
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 48KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 1MB shared 128MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores No 188
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 190
Shading Units 1024 24064
Tensor Cores No 752
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 64 752

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 960 Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Bus 128-bit 512-bit
ECC No Yes
Effective Memory Speed 7000 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1753 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 2 GB 96 GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 960 Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
DirectX 11 42 FPS 339 FPS
DirectX 12 28 FPS 154 FPS
G2D Mark 676 1391
GPU Compute 2801 Ops/s 26607 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 960 Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Die Size 228 mm² 750 mm²
Fabrication Process 28 nm 5 nm
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 120 W 600 W
Transistor Count 2 billion 92.2 billion
Transistor Density 8.77 MTr/mm² 122.93 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 960 Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Pixel Fill Rate 38 GPixel/s 497 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 75 GTexel/s 1968 GTexel/s

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