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 3060 Mobile

CORE STATE GA106

VRAM 6 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1425 MHz

TDP 80 W

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2021

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

162

1,821

geekbench_metal

8,773

N/A

geekbench_opencl

18,751

79,483

geekbench_vulkan

20,495

80,344

passmark_directx_10

N/A

90

passmark_directx_11

N/A

110

passmark_directx_12

N/A

58

passmark_directx_9

N/A

146

passmark_g2d

N/A

588

passmark_g3d

N/A

13,230

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

5,718

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 960

RTX 3060 Mobile

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,024

3,840 +275.0%

Shaders

1,024

3,840 +275.0%

TMUs

64

120 +87.5%

ROPs

32

48 +50.0%

SM Count

—

30

Clocks

Base Clock

1127 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1425 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

6 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

6,144 +200.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

128 bit

192 bit

Bandwidth

112.2 GB/s

336.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

1024 KB

3 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

68.40 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

171.0 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.413 TFLOPS

10.94 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)

171.0 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

10.94 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

30

Tensor Cores

—

120

Power

TDP

120 W

80 W

TDP (W)

120

80 -33.3%

Suggested PSU

300 W

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Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Ampere

GPU Name

GM206

GA106

Generation

GeForce 900

GeForce 30 Mobile

Process Size

28 nm

8 nm

Transistors

2,940 million

12,000 million

Die Size

228 mm²

276 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

Samsung

Density

12.9M / mm²

43.5M / 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

8.6

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

—

Length

241 mm 9.5 inches

—

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Portable Device Dependent

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

199 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

GeForce 20 Mobile

Successor

GeForce 10

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