GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs GeForce RTX 4090
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 110% (2520MHz vs 1201MHz)
More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.01TB/s vs 112.2GB/s)
15360 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
2460
GeForce RTX 4090
+3256%
82580
Graphics Card
Nov 2015
Release Date
Sep 2022
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 40
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1176 MHz
Base Clock
2235 MHz
1201 MHz
Boost Clock
2520 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1313 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
24GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6X
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
112.2GB/s
Bandwidth
1.01TB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
128
1024
Shading Units
16384
64
TMUs
512
32
ROPs
176
-
Tensor Cores
512
-
RT Cores
128
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
72 MB
Theoretical Performance
38.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
443.5 GPixel/s
76.86 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1290 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
82.58 TFLOPS
2.460 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
82.58 TFLOPS
76.86 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1290 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
450W
200 W
Suggested PSU
850 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
AD102
GTX 960 OEM
GPU Variant
AD102-300-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
76.3 billion
228 mm²
Die Size
609 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
8.9
6.7
Shader Model
6.8
