GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA 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

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce RTX 2080

CORE STATE TU104

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1710 MHz

TDP 215 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Turing

nm

PROCESS 12 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2018

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

162

1,752

geekbench_metal

8,773

N/A

geekbench_opencl

18,751

105,271

geekbench_vulkan

20,495

101,532

passmark_directx_10

N/A

136

passmark_directx_11

N/A

158

passmark_directx_12

N/A

72

passmark_directx_9

N/A

223

passmark_g2d

N/A

907

passmark_g3d

N/A

18,720

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

7,872

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 960

RTX 2080

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,024

2,944 +187.5%

Shaders

1,024

2,944 +187.5%

TMUs

64

184 +187.5%

ROPs

32

64 +100.0%

SM Count

—

46

Clocks

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1515 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1710 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

8 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

8,192 +300.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

128 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

112.2 GB/s

448.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

64 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

1024 KB

4 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

109.4 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

314.6 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.413 TFLOPS

10.07 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)

314.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

20.14 TFLOPS (2:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

46

Tensor Cores

—

368

Power

TDP

120 W

215 W

TDP (W)

120

215 +79.2%

Suggested PSU

300 W

550 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Turing

GPU Name

GM206

TU104

Generation

GeForce 900

GeForce 20

Process Size

28 nm

12 nm

Transistors

2,940 million

13,600 million

Die Size

228 mm²

545 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.9M / mm²

25.0M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

5.2

7.5

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

241 mm 9.5 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

116 mm 4.6 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

199 USD

699 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

GeForce 10

Successor

GeForce 10

GeForce 30

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