Power Consumption

The reference GTX 960 has a TDP of 120W while the G1 Gaming goes up to 140-160W, but the 6-PWM design ensures higher, solid boost clocks while maintaining stability.

Despite the overclock, the GTX 960 G1 Gaming is a very power-efficient graphics card. Two 6-pin power connectors provide additional power in case the user wants to overclock the GPU even further. The reference GTX 960 card uses only one 6-pin power connector and once again we must conclude that Nvidia’s Maxwell cards offer truly exceptional efficiency which we did not expect from 28nm GPUs.