NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti 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 GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 9% (1178MHz vs 1076MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +151%

6.06 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +152%

5757

GeForce GTX 960

2284

Blender

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +188%

553

GeForce GTX 960

192

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +189%

133

GeForce GTX 960

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +140%

24

GeForce GTX 960

10

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +80%

45

GeForce GTX 960

25

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +114%

75

GeForce GTX 960

35

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +71%

120

GeForce GTX 960

70

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

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GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Jan 2015

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1076 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

336.6GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

1024

176

TMUs

64

96

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

103.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

189.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

6.060 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

189.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM200

GPU Name

GM206

GM200-310-A1

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

601 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

120W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 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 + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

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