NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 16GB VRAM RTX 2000 Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 81% (2130MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

RTX 2000 Ada Generation +397%

12 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 960

189

RTX 2000 Ada Generation +1301%

2649

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 960

46

RTX 2000 Ada Generation +541%

295

GeForce GTX 960

VS

RTX 2000 Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Feb 2024

GeForce 900

Generation

Quadro Ada

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1620 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

2130 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

22

1024

Shading Units

2816

64

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

88

-

RT Cores

22

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

12 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.2 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

187.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.00 TFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.00 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

187.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

70W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

AD107

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

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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