GeForce GTX 960 vs GeForce GTX 980 Ti
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 9% (1178MHz vs 1076MHz)
Lower TDP (120W vs 250W)
GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages
More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)
1792 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 960
2413
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
+151%
6060
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 960
2300
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
+151%
5789
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 960
1025
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
+173%
2807
Blender
GeForce GTX 960
189
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
+187%
544
OctaneBench
GeForce GTX 960
46
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
+189%
133
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 960
10
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
+140%
24
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 960
25
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
+80%
45
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 960
35
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
+114%
75
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 960
70
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
+71%
120
Graphics Card
Jan 2015
Release Date
Jun 2015
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1127 MHz
Base Clock
1000 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
1076 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
112.2GB/s
Bandwidth
336.6GB/s
Render Config
1024
Shading Units
2816
64
TMUs
176
32
ROPs
96
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
3 MB
Theoretical Performance
37.70 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
103.3 GPixel/s
75.39 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
189.4 GTexel/s
2.413 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.060 TFLOPS
75.39 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
189.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
120W
TDP
250W
300 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
GM200
GM206-300-A1
GPU Variant
GM200-310-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
8 billion
228 mm²
Die Size
601 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
5.2
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
