NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 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 320W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 113% (2505MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (716.8GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

8704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 +1919%

48.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 960

2283

GeForce RTX 4080 +1138%

28272

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 960

10

GeForce RTX 4080 +1220%

132

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 960

25

GeForce RTX 4080 +884%

246

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 960

35

GeForce RTX 4080 +757%

300

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 960

70

GeForce RTX 4080 +160%

182

GeForce GTX 960

VS

GeForce RTX 4080

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Sep 2022

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

2205 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

2505 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

716.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

76

1024

Shading Units

9728

64

TMUs

304

32

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

304

-

RT Cores

76

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

64 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

280.6 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

761.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

48.74 TFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

48.74 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

761.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

320W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 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 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

AD103

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

AD103-300-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

45.9 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

379 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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