NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB 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 Ti 12 GB 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 39% (1635MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)
3584 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 960
2.413 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB
+524%
15.07 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 960
2300
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB
+535%
14622
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 960
1025
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB
+583%
7001
Blender
GeForce GTX 960
189
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB
+1687%
3378
OctaneBench
GeForce GTX 960
46
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB
+450%
253
Graphics Card
Jan 2015
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 20
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1127 MHz
Base Clock
1350 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
1635 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
112.2GB/s
Bandwidth
768.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
72
1024
Shading Units
4608
64
TMUs
288
32
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
576
-
RT Cores
72
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
6 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
37.70 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
157.0 GPixel/s
75.39 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
470.9 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
30.14 TFLOPS
2.413 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
15.07 TFLOPS
75.39 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
470.9 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 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
TU102
GM206-300-A1
GPU Variant
TU102-350-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Turing
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
12 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
18.6 billion
228 mm²
Die Size
754 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
6.8
