NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps 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 GTX 1080 11Gbps 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (1733MHz vs 1201MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.3GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps +260%

8.873 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.46 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

VS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Nov 2015

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

1176 MHz

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

1201 MHz

1376 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

352.3GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

1024

160

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.43 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.86 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.460 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.86 GFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GM206

GP104-410-A1

GPU Variant

GTX 960 OEM

Pascal

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

5.2

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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