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 4080 SUPER

CORE STATE AD103

VRAM 16 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2550 MHz

TDP 320 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ada Lovelace

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2024

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

162

6,600

geekbench_metal

8,773

N/A

geekbench_opencl

18,751

246,994

geekbench_vulkan

20,495

226,163

passmark_directx_10

N/A

193

passmark_directx_11

N/A

301

passmark_directx_12

N/A

134

passmark_directx_9

N/A

381

passmark_g2d

N/A

1,270

passmark_g3d

N/A

34,245

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

19,822

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 960

RTX 4080 SUPER

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,024

10,240 +900.0%

Shaders

1,024

10,240 +900.0%

TMUs

64

320 +400.0%

ROPs

32

112 +250.0%

SM Count

—

80

Clocks

Base Clock

1127 MHz

2295 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2550 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1438 MHz 23 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

16 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

16,384 +700.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6X

Memory Bus

128 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

112.2 GB/s

736.3 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

285.6 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

816.0 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.413 TFLOPS

52.22 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)

816.0 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

52.22 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

80

Tensor Cores

—

320

Power

TDP

120 W

320 W

TDP (W)

120

320 +166.7%

Suggested PSU

300 W

700 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 16-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Ada Lovelace

GPU Name

GM206

AD103

Generation

GeForce 900

GeForce 40

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

Triple-slot

Length

241 mm 9.5 inches

310 mm 12.2 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

999 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

GeForce 30

Successor

GeForce 10

GeForce 50

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