NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 768MB VRAM GeForce 8800 Ultra 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 8 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 103.7GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 171W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 +523%

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 Ultra

0.387 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

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GeForce 8800 Ultra

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1080 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

103.7GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

128

64

TMUs

32

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

96 KB

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.69 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.17 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

387.1 GFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

G80

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

G80-450-A3

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

90 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.681 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

484 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

171W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1 (1.0)

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

1.0

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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