NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2019
Nov 2015
Generation
GeForce 20 Mobile
GeForce 900
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
735 MHz
1176 MHz
Boost Clock
1095 MHz
1201 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
384.0GB/s
112.2GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
46
—
Shading Units
2944
1024
TMUs
184
64
ROPs
64
32
Tensor Cores
368
—
RT Cores
46
—
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
4 MB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
70.08 GPixel/s
38.43 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
201.5 GTexel/s
76.86 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.89 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
6.447 TFLOPS
2.460 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
201.5 GFLOPS
76.86 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
TU104
GM206
GPU Variant
N18E-G3-A1
GTX 960 OEM
Architecture
Turing
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
12 nm
28 nm
Transistors
13.6 billion
2.94 billion
Die Size
545 mm²
228 mm²
Board Design
TDP
80W
Unknown
Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Power Connectors
None
None
Suggested PSU
—
200 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
7.5
5.2
Shader Model
6.6
6.7
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.