NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 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 RTX 4060 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 109% (2460MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (272.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4060 +526%

15.11 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4060 +365%

10626

GeForce GTX 960

2284

Blender

GeForce RTX 4060 +1735%

3524

GeForce GTX 960

192

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 4060 +673%

356

GeForce GTX 960

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 4060 +360%

46

GeForce GTX 960

10

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 4060 +276%

94

GeForce GTX 960

25

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 4060 +374%

166

GeForce GTX 960

35

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4060 +171%

190

GeForce GTX 960

70

GeForce RTX 4060

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GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

May 2023

Release Date

Jan 2015

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1830 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

2460 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2125 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

272.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

24

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

3072

Shading Units

1024

96

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

32

96

Tensor Cores

-

24

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

24 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

118.1 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

236.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

15.11 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

15.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

236.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD107

GPU Name

GM206

AD107-400-A1

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

18.9 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

159 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

120W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

8.9

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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