NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 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 3080 Ti 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 39% (1665MHz vs 1201MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

9216 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +1286%

34.1 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.46 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

VS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Graphics Card

May 2021

Release Date

Nov 2015

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1365 MHz

Base Clock

1176 MHz

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

1201 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

80

SM Count

-

10240

Shading Units

1024

320

TMUs

64

112

ROPs

32

320

Tensor Cores

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

186.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.43 GPixel/s

532.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.86 GTexel/s

34.10 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

34.10 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.460 TFLOPS

532.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.86 GFLOPS

Board Design

350W

TDP

Unknown

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GM206

GA102-225-A1

GPU Variant

GTX 960 OEM

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

628 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

6.7

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