NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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

Released 5 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 41% (1665MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

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

3840 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +571%

16.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +411%

11685

GeForce GTX 960

2283

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +390%

49

GeForce GTX 960

10

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +272%

93

GeForce GTX 960

25

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +268%

129

GeForce GTX 960

35

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +112%

149

GeForce GTX 960

70

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

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GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Dec 2020

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

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

-

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

200W

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

GA104-200-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

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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