NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 54% (1852MHz vs 1201MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +478%

14.22 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.46 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

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GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Nov 2015

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1627 MHz

Base Clock

1176 MHz

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

1201 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

1024

120

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

32

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

88.90 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.43 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.86 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.460 TFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.86 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GM206

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

GTX 960 OEM

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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