NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2015
Oct 2022
Generation
GeForce 900
GeForce 30
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1127 MHz
1410 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1665 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
1188 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6X
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
112.2GB/s
608.3GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1024
4864
TMUs
64
152
ROPs
32
80
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
4 MB
SM Count
—
38
Tensor Cores
—
152
RT Cores
—
38
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
37.70 GPixel/s
133.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
75.39 GTexel/s
253.1 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.413 TFLOPS
16.20 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
75.39 GFLOPS
253.1 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
16.20 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM206
GA104
GPU Variant
GM206-300-A1
GA104-202-A1
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
2.94 billion
17.4 billion
Die Size
228 mm²
392 mm²
Board Design
TDP
120W
225W
Suggested PSU
300 W
550 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 12-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
5.2
8.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.7
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
2,300
12,223
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,025
5,941
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
10
—
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
25
—
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
35
—
GTA 5 1080p
70
—
3DMark Speed Way
—
3,097
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.