NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 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 4090 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 114% (2520MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 2GB)

15360 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2TB/s vs 1.01TB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 +3322%

82.58 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4090 +1500%

36549

GeForce GTX 960

2284

Blender

GeForce RTX 4090 +6629%

12921

GeForce GTX 960

192

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 4090 +2678%

1278

GeForce GTX 960

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +1750%

185

GeForce GTX 960

10

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +1020%

280

GeForce GTX 960

25

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +768%

304

GeForce GTX 960

35

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +165%

186

GeForce GTX 960

70

GeForce RTX 4090

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Jan 2015

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

1.01TB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

128

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

16384

Shading Units

1024

512

TMUs

64

176

ROPs

32

512

Tensor Cores

-

128

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

72 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

443.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

1290 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

82.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

82.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

1290 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

GM206

AD102-300-A1

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

609 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

450W

TDP

120W

850 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 16-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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