NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 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 3090 Ti 's Advantages

Released 7 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 58% (1860MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1008GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

9728 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +1557%

40 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +866%

22082

GeForce GTX 960

2284

Blender

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +3264%

6459

GeForce GTX 960

192

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +1313%

650

GeForce GTX 960

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +950%

105

GeForce GTX 960

10

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +568%

167

GeForce GTX 960

25

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +500%

210

GeForce GTX 960

35

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +222%

226

GeForce GTX 960

70

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

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GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Jan 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

1560 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1860 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

1008GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

84

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

10752

Shading Units

1024

336

TMUs

64

112

ROPs

32

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

208.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

625.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

40.00 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

40.00 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

625.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GM206

GA102-350-A1

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

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

Board Design

450W

TDP

120W

850 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 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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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