NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 40% (1680MHz vs 1201MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 +162%

6.451 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.46 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060

VS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2019

Release Date

Nov 2015

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1365 MHz

Base Clock

1176 MHz

1680 MHz

Boost Clock

1201 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

-

1920

Shading Units

1024

120

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

32

240

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

80.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.43 GPixel/s

201.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.86 GTexel/s

12.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.451 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.460 TFLOPS

201.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.86 GFLOPS

Board Design

160W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

No outputs

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

GM206

TU106-200A-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GTX 960 OEM

Turing

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

5.2

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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