NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 54% (1852MHz vs 1201MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

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

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.46 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +478%

14.22 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1176 MHz

Base Clock

1627 MHz

1201 MHz

Boost Clock

1852 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

-

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

3840

64

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

38.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

88.90 GPixel/s

76.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

14.22 TFLOPS

2.460 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.22 TFLOPS

76.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

222.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GA106

GTX 960 OEM

GPU Variant

GA106-400-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

12 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

185W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 12-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

8.6

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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