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 3090 Ti

CORE STATE GA102

VRAM 24 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1860 MHz

TDP 450 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2022

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

162

5,741

geekbench_metal

8,773

N/A

geekbench_opencl

18,751

205,978

geekbench_vulkan

20,495

184,015

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 960

RTX 3090 Ti

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,024

10,752 +950.0%

Shaders

1,024

10,752 +950.0%

TMUs

64

336 +425.0%

ROPs

32

112 +250.0%

SM Count

—

84

Clocks

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1560 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1860 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1313 MHz 21 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

24 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

24,576 +1100.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6X

Memory Bus

128 bit

384 bit

Bandwidth

112.2 GB/s

1.01 TB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

1024 KB

6 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

208.3 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

625.0 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.413 TFLOPS

40.00 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)

625.0 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

40.00 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

84

Tensor Cores

—

336

Power

TDP

120 W

450 W

TDP (W)

120

450 +275.0%

Suggested PSU

300 W

850 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 16-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Ampere

GPU Name

GM206

GA102

Generation

GeForce 900

GeForce 30

Process Size

28 nm

8 nm

Transistors

2,940 million

28,300 million

Die Size

228 mm²

628 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

Samsung

Density

12.9M / mm²

45.1M / 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

Triple-slot

Length

241 mm 9.5 inches

336 mm 13.2 inches

Height

—

140 mm 5.5 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

1,999 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

GeForce 20

Successor

GeForce 10

GeForce 40

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