NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 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 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 45% (1710MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)
1920 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages
Lower TDP (120W vs 215W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 2080
+317%
10.07 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 960
2.413 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 2080
+381%
11078
GeForce GTX 960
2300
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 2080
+402%
5146
GeForce GTX 960
1025
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce RTX 2080
+360%
46
GeForce GTX 960
10
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce RTX 2080
+240%
85
GeForce GTX 960
25
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce RTX 2080
+262%
127
GeForce GTX 960
35
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 2080
+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
1515 MHz
Base Clock
1127 MHz
1710 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
112.2GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
46
SM Count
-
2944
Shading Units
1024
184
TMUs
64
64
ROPs
32
368
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
109.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
37.70 GPixel/s
314.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
75.39 GTexel/s
20.14 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
10.07 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.413 TFLOPS
314.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
75.39 GFLOPS
Board Design
215W
TDP
120W
550 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
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
TU104
GPU Name
GM206
TU104-400A-A1
GPU Variant
GM206-300-A1
Turing
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
12 nm
Process Size
28 nm
13.6 billion
Transistors
2.94 billion
545 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
