NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 47% (1733MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 +267%

8.873 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1080 +229%

7533

GeForce GTX 960

2284

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080 +220%

32

GeForce GTX 960

10

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080 +148%

62

GeForce GTX 960

25

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080 +182%

99

GeForce GTX 960

35

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080 +120%

154

GeForce GTX 960

70

GeForce GTX 1080

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Jan 2015

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

1024

160

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GM206

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

5.2

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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