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 4090 Mobile

CORE STATE AD103

VRAM 16 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1695 MHz

TDP 120 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ada Lovelace

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2023

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

162

N/A

geekbench_metal

8,773

N/A

geekbench_opencl

18,751

180,831

geekbench_vulkan

20,495

170,774

passmark_directx_10

N/A

173

passmark_directx_11

N/A

262

passmark_directx_12

N/A

107

passmark_directx_9

N/A

310

passmark_g2d

N/A

984

passmark_g3d

N/A

27,212

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

12,347

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 960

RTX 4090 Mobile

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,024

9,728 +850.0%

Shaders

1,024

9,728 +850.0%

TMUs

64

304 +375.0%

ROPs

32

112 +250.0%

SM Count

—

76

Clocks

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1335 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1695 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

2250 MHz 18 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

16 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

16,384 +700.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

128 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

112.2 GB/s

576.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

1024 KB

64 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

189.8 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

515.3 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.413 TFLOPS

32.98 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)

515.3 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

32.98 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

76

Tensor Cores

—

304

Power

TDP

120 W

120 W

TDP (W)

120

120 0.0%

Suggested PSU

300 W

—

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Ada Lovelace

GPU Name

GM206

AD103

Generation

GeForce 900

GeForce 40 Mobile

Process Size

28 nm

5 nm

Transistors

2,940 million

45,900 million

Die Size

228 mm²

379 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.9M / mm²

121.1M / 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

8.9

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

IGP

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

Active

Predecessor

GeForce 700

GeForce 30 Mobile

Successor

GeForce 10

GeForce 50 Mobile

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