NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 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 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 41% (1665MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)
3840 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages
Lower TDP (120W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+571%
16.2 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 960
2.413 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+431%
12223
GeForce GTX 960
2300
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+479%
5941
GeForce GTX 960
1025
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+400%
50
GeForce GTX 960
10
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+260%
90
GeForce GTX 960
25
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+294%
138
GeForce GTX 960
35
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+121%
155
GeForce GTX 960
70
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
1410 MHz
Base Clock
1127 MHz
1665 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1188 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
608.3GB/s
Bandwidth
112.2GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
38
SM Count
-
4864
Shading Units
1024
152
TMUs
64
80
ROPs
32
152
Tensor Cores
-
38
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
133.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
37.70 GPixel/s
253.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
75.39 GTexel/s
16.20 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
16.20 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.413 TFLOPS
253.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
75.39 GFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
120W
550 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
GA104
GPU Name
GM206
GA104-202-A1
GPU Variant
GM206-300-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
2.94 billion
392 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
6.7
Shader Model
6.4
