NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 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 200W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 41% (1665MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

3840 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +571%

16.2 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 960

2283

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +411%

11685

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 960

10

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +390%

49

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 960

25

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +272%

93

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 960

35

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +268%

129

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 960

70

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +112%

149

GeForce GTX 960

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GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Dec 2020

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1410 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

38

1024

Shading Units

4864

64

TMUs

152

32

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

152

-

RT Cores

38

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

253.1 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

200W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GA104

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-200-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

392 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

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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