NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (1710MHz vs 1201MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.46 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 +309%

10.07 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

GeForce RTX 2080

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Sep 2018

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1176 MHz

Base Clock

1515 MHz

1201 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 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

46

1024

Shading Units

2944

64

TMUs

184

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

368

-

RT Cores

46

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

109.4 GPixel/s

76.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

314.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

20.14 TFLOPS

2.460 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.07 TFLOPS

76.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

314.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

215W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

TU104

GTX 960 OEM

GPU Variant

TU104-400A-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

545 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

7.5

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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