NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

912 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 125W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 +618%

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GT

0.336 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

VS

GeForce 8800 GT

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Oct 2007

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

14

1024

Shading Units

112

64

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.60 GTexel/s

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

336.0 GFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

120W

TDP

125W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

G92

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

G92-270-A2

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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