NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 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 GTX 1080's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (1733MHz vs 1201MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 +260%

8.873 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.46 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080

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GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Nov 2015

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607MHz

Base Clock

1176MHz

1733MHz

Boost Clock

1201MHz

1251MHz

Memory Clock

1753MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.3 GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2 GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

1024

160

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2MB

L2 Cache

1024KB

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.43 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.86 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.460 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.86 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GM206

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

GTX 960 OEM

Pascal

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7,200 million

Transistors

2,940 million

314mm²

Die Size

228mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

Unknown

450W

Suggested PSU

200W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

5.2

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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