NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 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 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 51% (1777MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +427%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +225%

7428

GeForce GTX 960

2283

Blender

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +1222%

2499

GeForce GTX 960

189

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +513%

282

GeForce GTX 960

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +350%

45

GeForce GTX 960

10

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +240%

85

GeForce GTX 960

25

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +277%

132

GeForce GTX 960

35

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +120%

154

GeForce GTX 960

70

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

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GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Jan 2015

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

1024

112

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GM206

GA106-302-A1

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

276 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

8.6

CUDA

5.2

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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