NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages
Lower TDP (120W vs 225W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 41% (1665MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)
3840 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 960
2.413 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+571%
16.2 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 960
2300
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+431%
12223
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 960
1025
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+479%
5941
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 960
10
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+400%
50
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 960
25
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+260%
90
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 960
35
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+294%
138
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 960
70
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+121%
155
Graphics Card
Jan 2015
Release Date
Oct 2022
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1127 MHz
Base Clock
1410 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
1665 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6X
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
112.2GB/s
Bandwidth
608.3GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
38
1024
Shading Units
4864
64
TMUs
152
32
ROPs
80
-
Tensor Cores
152
-
RT Cores
38
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
37.70 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
133.2 GPixel/s
75.39 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
253.1 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
16.20 TFLOPS
2.413 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
16.20 TFLOPS
75.39 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
253.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
120W
TDP
225W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
GA104
GM206-300-A1
GPU Variant
GA104-202-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
228 mm²
Die Size
392 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
8.6
6.4
Shader Model
6.7
