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 Ti

CORE STATE GA104

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1665 MHz

TDP 200 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2020

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

162

2,626

geekbench_metal

8,773

N/A

geekbench_opencl

18,751

109,075

geekbench_vulkan

20,495

107,543

passmark_directx_10

N/A

132

passmark_directx_11

N/A

163

passmark_directx_12

N/A

78

passmark_directx_9

N/A

234

passmark_g2d

N/A

989

passmark_g3d

N/A

20,349

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

10,006

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 960

RTX 3060 Ti

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,024

4,864 +375.0%

Shaders

1,024

4,864 +375.0%

TMUs

64

152 +137.5%

ROPs

32

80 +150.0%

SM Count

—

38

Clocks

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1410 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1665 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)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

1024 KB

4 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

133.2 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

253.1 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.413 TFLOPS

16.20 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)

253.1 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

16.20 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

38

Tensor Cores

—

152

Power

TDP

120 W

200 W

TDP (W)

120

200 +66.7%

Suggested PSU

300 W

550 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 12-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Ampere

GPU Name

GM206

GA104

Generation

GeForce 900

GeForce 30

Process Size

28 nm

8 nm

Transistors

2,940 million

17,400 million

Die Size

228 mm²

392 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

Samsung

Density

12.9M / mm²

44.4M / 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

Dual-slot

Length

241 mm 9.5 inches

242 mm 9.5 inches

Height

—

112 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

199 USD

399 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

GeForce 20

Successor

GeForce 10

GeForce 40

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