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 Ti

CORE STATE TU102

VRAM 11 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1545 MHz

TDP 250 W

BUS WIDTH 352 bit

ARCHITECTURE Turing

nm

PROCESS 12 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2018

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

162

3,537

geekbench_metal

8,773

N/A

geekbench_opencl

18,751

134,929

geekbench_vulkan

20,495

132,930

passmark_directx_10

N/A

153

passmark_directx_11

N/A

190

passmark_directx_12

N/A

84

passmark_directx_9

N/A

235

passmark_g2d

N/A

927

passmark_g3d

N/A

21,548

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

10,056

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 960

RTX 2080 Ti

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,024

4,352 +325.0%

Shaders

1,024

4,352 +325.0%

TMUs

64

272 +325.0%

ROPs

32

88 +175.0%

SM Count

—

68

Clocks

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1350 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1545 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

11 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

11,264 +450.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

128 bit

352 bit

Bandwidth

112.2 GB/s

616.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

64 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

1024 KB

5.5 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

136.0 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

420.2 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.413 TFLOPS

13.45 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)

420.2 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

26.90 TFLOPS (2:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

68

Tensor Cores

—

544

Power

TDP

120 W

250 W

TDP (W)

120

250 +108.3%

Suggested PSU

300 W

600 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

2x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Turing

GPU Name

GM206

TU102

Generation

GeForce 900

GeForce 20

Process Size

28 nm

12 nm

Transistors

2,940 million

18,600 million

Die Size

228 mm²

754 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.9M / mm²

24.7M / 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

999 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

GeForce 10

Successor

GeForce 10

GeForce 30

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