NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 37% (1650MHz vs 1201MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.46 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +191%

7.181 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Dec 2021

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1176 MHz

Base Clock

1470 MHz

1201 MHz

Boost Clock

1650 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

34

-

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

2176

64

TMUs

136

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

272

-

RT Cores

34

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

38.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

79.20 GPixel/s

76.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

224.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

14.36 TFLOPS

2.460 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.181 TFLOPS

76.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

224.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

TU106

GTX 960 OEM

GPU Variant

TU106-300-KA-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

184W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

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

7.5

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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