Product Compare
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Jan 2015 | Jun 2017 |
| Generation | GeForce 900 | GeForce 10 Mobile |
| Type | Desktop | Mobile |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 1127 MHz | 1290 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1178 MHz | 1468 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1753 MHz | 1251 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 2GB | 8GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5X |
| Memory Bus | 128bit | 256bit |
| Bandwidth | 112.2GB/s | 320.3GB/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 | 37.70 GPixel/s | 93.95 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 75.39 GTexel/s | 234.9 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 2.413 TFLOPS | 7.516 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 75.39 GFLOPS | 234.9 GFLOPS |
| FP16 (half) | 117.4 GFLOPS | |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | GM206 | GP104 |
| GPU Variant | GM206-300-A1 | N17E-G3-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 | 120W | 150W |
| Suggested PSU | 300 W | |
| Outputs | 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a | No outputs |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin | None |
| 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 | 6.4 | 6.4 |