GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

CORE STATE GP102

VRAM 11 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1582 MHz

TDP 250 W

BUS WIDTH 352 bit

ARCHITECTURE Pascal

nm

PROCESS 16 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2017

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 960

CORE STATE GM206

VRAM 2 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1178 MHz

TDP 120 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2015

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

2,231

162

geekbench_metal

30,624

8,773

geekbench_opencl

67,717

18,751

geekbench_vulkan

83,108

20,495

passmark_directx_10

118

N/A

passmark_directx_11

151

N/A

passmark_directx_12

66

N/A

passmark_directx_9

231

N/A

passmark_g2d

939

N/A

passmark_g3d

18,600

N/A

passmark_gpu_compute

9,632

N/A

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 1080 Ti

GTX 960

Core Specs

Shading Units

3,584

1,024 -71.4%

Shaders

3,584

1,024 -71.4%

TMUs

224

64 -71.4%

ROPs

88

32 -63.6%

SM Count

28

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Clocks

Base Clock

1481 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

1582 MHz

1178 MHz

Memory Clock

1376 MHz 11 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

11 GB

2 GB

VRAM (MB)

11,264

2,048 -81.8%

Memory Type

GDDR5X

GDDR5

Memory Bus

352 bit

128 bit

Bandwidth

484.4 GB/s

112.2 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

2.75 MB

1024 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

139.2 GPixel/s

37.70 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

354.4 GTexel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

11.34 TFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

354.4 GFLOPS (1:32)

75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

177.2 GFLOPS (1:64)

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Power

TDP

250 W

120 W

TDP (W)

250

120 -52.0%

Suggested PSU

600 W

300 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

1x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Pascal

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

GP102

GM206

Generation

GeForce 10

GeForce 900

Process Size

16 nm

28 nm

Transistors

11,800 million

2,940 million

Die Size

471 mm²

228 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

25.1M / mm²

12.9M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

6.1

5.2

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

241 mm 9.5 inches

Height

112 mm 4.4 inches

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Outputs

1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

699 USD

199 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 900

GeForce 700

Successor

GeForce 20

GeForce 10

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