Product Compare
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Nov 2015 | Apr 2017 |
| Generation | GeForce 900 | GeForce 10 |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 1176 MHz | 1607 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1201 MHz | 1733 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1753 MHz | 1376 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 4GB | 8GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5X |
| Memory Bus | 128bit | 256bit |
| Bandwidth | 112.2GB/s | 352.3GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Shading Units | 1024 | 2560 |
| TMUs | 64 | 160 |
| ROPs | 32 | 64 |
| L1 Cache | 48 KB (per SMM) | 48 KB (per SM) |
| L2 Cache | 1024 KB | 2 MB |
| SM Count | 20 | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 38.43 GPixel/s | 110.9 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 76.86 GTexel/s | 277.3 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 2.460 TFLOPS | 8.873 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 76.86 GFLOPS | 277.3 GFLOPS |
| FP16 (half) | 138.6 GFLOPS | |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | GM206 | GP104 |
| GPU Variant | GTX 960 OEM | GP104-410-A1 |
| Architecture | Maxwell 2.0 | Pascal |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 28 nm | 16 nm |
| Transistors | 2.94 billion | 7.2 billion |
| Die Size | 228 mm² | 314 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | Unknown | 180W |
| Suggested PSU | 200 W | 450 W |
| Outputs | No outputs | 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a |
| Power Connectors | None | 1x 8-pin |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (12_1) | 12 (12_1) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| CUDA | 5.2 | 6.1 |
| Shader Model | 6.7 | 6.4 |