GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

CORE STATE GP104

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1733 MHz

TDP 180 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Pascal

nm

PROCESS 16 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2016

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 960A

CORE STATE GM107

VRAM 2 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1176 MHz

TDP 75 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2015

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

1,560

N/A

geekbench_metal

23,824

N/A

geekbench_opencl

55,724

12,002

geekbench_vulkan

65,164

N/A

passmark_directx_10

93

N/A

passmark_directx_11

124

N/A

passmark_directx_12

55

N/A

passmark_directx_9

211

N/A

passmark_g2d

888

N/A

passmark_g3d

15,586

N/A

passmark_gpu_compute

7,614

N/A

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 1080

GTX 960A

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,560

640 -75.0%

Shaders

2,560

640 -75.0%

TMUs

160

40 -75.0%

ROPs

64

16 -75.0%

SM Count

20

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Clocks

Base Clock

1607 MHz

1097 MHz

Boost Clock

1733 MHz

1176 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz 10 Gbps effective

1253 MHz 5 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

2 GB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

2,048 -75.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5X

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

128 bit

Bandwidth

320.3 GB/s

80.19 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

64 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

110.9 GPixel/s

18.82 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

277.3 GTexel/s

47.04 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

8.873 TFLOPS

1.505 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

277.3 GFLOPS (1:32)

47.04 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

138.6 GFLOPS (1:64)

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Power

TDP

180 W

75 W

TDP (W)

180

75 -58.3%

Suggested PSU

450 W

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Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

Pascal

Maxwell

GPU Name

GP104

GM107

Generation

GeForce 10

GeForce 900A

Process Size

16 nm

28 nm

Transistors

7,200 million

1,870 million

Die Size

314 mm²

148 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

22.9M / mm²

12.6M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (11_0)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

6.1

5.0

Shader Model

6.8

6.7 (5.1)

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

MXM Module

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

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Height

112 mm 4.4 inches

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Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a

Portable Device Dependent

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

MXM-B (3.0)

Other

Launch Price

599 USD

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Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 900

GeForce 800A

Successor

GeForce 20

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