GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 39% (1665MHz vs 1201MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)
3840 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
2460
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
+558%
16200
Graphics Card
Nov 2015
Release Date
Dec 2020
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1176 MHz
Base Clock
1410 MHz
1201 MHz
Boost Clock
1665 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
112.2GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
38
1024
Shading Units
4864
64
TMUs
152
32
ROPs
80
-
Tensor Cores
152
-
RT Cores
38
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
38.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
133.2 GPixel/s
76.86 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
253.1 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
16.20 TFLOPS
2.460 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
16.20 TFLOPS
76.86 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
253.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
200W
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
GA104
GTX 960 OEM
GPU Variant
GA104-200-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
228 mm²
Die Size
392 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
8.6
6.7
Shader Model
6.6
