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

Quadro RTX 8000

CORE STATE TU102

VRAM 48 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1770 MHz

TDP 260 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE Turing

nm

PROCESS 12 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2018

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

162

N/A

geekbench_metal

8,773

N/A

geekbench_opencl

18,751

125,554

geekbench_vulkan

20,495

125,781

passmark_directx_10

N/A

137

passmark_directx_11

N/A

188

passmark_directx_12

N/A

79

passmark_directx_9

N/A

211

passmark_g2d

N/A

866

passmark_g3d

N/A

19,799

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

9,992

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 960

Quadro RTX 8000

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,024

4,608 +350.0%

Shaders

1,024

4,608 +350.0%

TMUs

64

288 +350.0%

ROPs

32

96 +200.0%

SM Count

—

72

Clocks

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1395 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1770 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

48 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

49,152 +2300.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

128 bit

384 bit

Bandwidth

112.2 GB/s

672.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

64 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

1024 KB

6 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

169.9 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

509.8 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.413 TFLOPS

16.31 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)

509.8 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

32.62 TFLOPS (2:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

72

Tensor Cores

—

576

Power

TDP

120 W

260 W

TDP (W)

120

260 +116.7%

Suggested PSU

300 W

600 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Turing

GPU Name

GM206

TU102

Generation

GeForce 900

Quadro Turing (Tx000)

Process Size

28 nm

12 nm

Transistors

2,940 million

18,600 million

Die Size

228 mm²

754 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.9M / mm²

24.7M / 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

7.5

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

241 mm 9.5 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

4x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

199 USD

9,999 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

Quadro Volta

Successor

GeForce 10

Workstation Ampere

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