NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 109% (2505MHz vs 1201MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (716.8GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

8704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4080 +1881%

48.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.46 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080

VS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Nov 2015

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2205 MHz

Base Clock

1176 MHz

2505 MHz

Boost Clock

1201 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

716.8GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

76

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

9728

Shading Units

1024

304

TMUs

64

112

ROPs

32

304

Tensor Cores

-

76

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

64 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

280.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.43 GPixel/s

761.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.86 GTexel/s

48.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

48.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.460 TFLOPS

761.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.86 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD103

GPU Name

GM206

AD103-300-A1

GPU Variant

GTX 960 OEM

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

45.9 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

379 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

320W

TDP

Unknown

700 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

8.9

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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