NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 215W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 45% (1710MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 +317%

10.07 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 960

2284

GeForce RTX 2080 +379%

10960

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 960

10

GeForce RTX 2080 +360%

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 960

25

GeForce RTX 2080 +240%

85

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 960

35

GeForce RTX 2080 +262%

127

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 960

70

GeForce RTX 2080 +157%

180

GeForce GTX 960

VS

GeForce RTX 2080

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Sep 2018

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1515 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

46

-

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

2944

64

TMUs

184

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

368

-

RT Cores

46

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

109.4 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

314.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

20.14 TFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.07 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

314.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

TU104

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

TU104-400A-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

545 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

215W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

7.5

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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