NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 109% (2460MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (272.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4060 +526%

15.11 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 960

2283

GeForce RTX 4060 +365%

10620

Blender

GeForce GTX 960

189

GeForce RTX 4060 +1679%

3363

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 960

46

GeForce RTX 4060 +663%

351

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 960

10

GeForce RTX 4060 +360%

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 960

25

GeForce RTX 4060 +276%

94

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 960

35

GeForce RTX 4060 +374%

166

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 960

70

GeForce RTX 4060 +171%

190

GeForce GTX 960

VS

GeForce RTX 4060

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

May 2023

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1830 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

2460 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2125 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

272.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

24

1024

Shading Units

3072

64

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

96

-

RT Cores

24

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

118.1 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

236.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

15.11 TFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.11 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

236.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

115W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 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

AD107

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

AD107-400-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

18.9 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

159 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

8.9

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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