NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 11GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 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 RTX 2080 Ti 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 31% (1545MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (11GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (616.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)
3328 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages
Lower TDP (120W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
+457%
13.45 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 960
2.413 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
+535%
14622
GeForce GTX 960
2300
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
+583%
7001
GeForce GTX 960
1025
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
+480%
58
GeForce GTX 960
10
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
+336%
109
GeForce GTX 960
25
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
+314%
145
GeForce GTX 960
35
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
+157%
180
GeForce GTX 960
70
Graphics Card
Sep 2018
Release Date
Jan 2015
GeForce 20
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1350 MHz
Base Clock
1127 MHz
1545 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
11GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
352bit
Memory Bus
128bit
616.0GB/s
Bandwidth
112.2GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
68
SM Count
-
4352
Shading Units
1024
272
TMUs
64
88
ROPs
32
544
Tensor Cores
-
68
RT Cores
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
0 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
136.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
37.70 GPixel/s
420.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
75.39 GTexel/s
26.90 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
13.45 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.413 TFLOPS
420.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
75.39 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
120W
600 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
TU102
GPU Name
GM206
TU102-300A-K1-A1
GPU Variant
GM206-300-A1
Turing
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
12 nm
Process Size
28 nm
18.6 billion
Transistors
2.94 billion
754 mm²
Die Size
228 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
7.5
CUDA
5.2
6.6
Shader Model
6.4
