NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 50% (1770MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

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

1536 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER +275%

9.062 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER +342%

10095

GeForce GTX 960

2283

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER +320%

42

GeForce GTX 960

10

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER +220%

80

GeForce GTX 960

25

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER +237%

118

GeForce GTX 960

35

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER +157%

180

GeForce GTX 960

70

GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Jul 2019

Release Date

Jan 2015

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1605 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1770 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

40

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

1024

160

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

320

Tensor Cores

-

40

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

283.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

18.12 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.062 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

283.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Board Design

215W

TDP

120W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

TU104

GPU Name

GM206

TU104-410-A1

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

Turing

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

13.6 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

545 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

6.4

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