NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 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 4090 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 110% (2520MHz vs 1201MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.01TB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

15360 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 +3256%

82.58 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.46 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090

VS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Nov 2015

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1176 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1201 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

1.01TB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

128

SM Count

-

16384

Shading Units

1024

512

TMUs

64

176

ROPs

32

512

Tensor Cores

-

128

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

72 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

443.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.43 GPixel/s

1290 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.86 GTexel/s

82.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

82.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.460 TFLOPS

1290 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.86 GFLOPS

Board Design

450W

TDP

Unknown

850 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

GM206

AD102-300-A1

GPU Variant

GTX 960 OEM

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

609 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

8.9

CUDA

5.2

6.8

Shader Model

6.7

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