NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
GPU · Specs Compare
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
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.