NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 54% (1815MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (495.9GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +362%

11.15 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 960

2283

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +405%

11544

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 960

10

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +380%

48

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 960

25

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +264%

91

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 960

35

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +268%

129

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 960

70

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +157%

180

GeForce GTX 960

VS

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Jul 2019

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1650 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1815 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1937 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

495.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

48

1024

Shading Units

3072

64

TMUs

192

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

384

-

RT Cores

48

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

116.2 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

348.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

22.30 TFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

11.15 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

348.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

TU104

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

TU104-450-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

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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