The Card

Gigabyte's cooler is black and comes with some etched-in features that break up its flat surfaces. The backplate looks great and comes with similarly structured visual features. Dimensions of the card are 30.0 cm x 11.5 cm.


Installation requires two slots in your system.


Display connectivity options include two DVI ports, one HDMI port, and three DisplayPorts, a unique output configuration Gigabyte calls "FlexDisplay". Gigabyte put an automatic TMDS switch chip on the board, so you may run 2x DVI, 1x DP and 1x HDMI or 3x DP, 1x DVI and 1x HDMI at the same time. This setup provides additional flexibility while allowing for a triple-monitor-surround gaming setup with a single card.

The GPU also includes an HDMI sound device. It is HDMI 2.0 compatible, which includes HD audio and Blu-ray 3D movies support.


You may combine up to two GTX 960 cards in a multi-GPU SLI configuration. AMD recently switched to transferring CrossFire data via the PCI-Express bus in order to handle 4K frames. NVIDIA's SLI suffers from no such limitations, so there is no reason for NVIDIA to use PCIe.


Pictured above are the front and back, showing the disassembled board. High-res versions are also available (front, back).