NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1176MHz vs 1095MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960M

1.505 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q +328%

6.447 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 960M

1230

GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q +547%

7961

Blender

GeForce GTX 960M

185

GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q +946%

1936

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 960M

32

GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q +515%

197

GeForce GTX 960M

VS

GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Jan 2019

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 20 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1097 MHz

Base Clock

735 MHz

1176 MHz

Boost Clock

1095 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

46

-

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

2944

40

TMUs

184

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

368

-

RT Cores

46

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

18.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

70.08 GPixel/s

47.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.5 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.89 TFLOPS

1.505 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.447 TFLOPS

47.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

TU104

N16P-GX-A1

GPU Variant

N18E-G3-A1

Maxwell

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

545 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.0

CUDA

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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