NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2015
Sep 2021
Generation
GeForce 900M
GeForce 30
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1097 MHz
1320 MHz
Boost Clock
1176 MHz
1777 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
1875 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
128bit
192bit
Bandwidth
80.19GB/s
360.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
640
3584
TMUs
40
112
ROPs
16
48
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SMM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
3 MB
SM Count
—
28
Tensor Cores
—
112
RT Cores
—
28
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
18.82 GPixel/s
85.30 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
47.04 GTexel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.505 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
47.04 GFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
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12.74 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM107
GA104
GPU Variant
N16P-GX-A1
GA104-150-A1
Architecture
Maxwell
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
1.87 billion
17.4 billion
Die Size
148 mm²
392 mm²
Board Design
TDP
75W
170W
Outputs
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Suggested PSU
—
450 W
Power Connectors
—
1x 12-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
5.0
8.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.6
Benchmark
Blender
185
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3DMark Time Spy
—
8,935
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
4,231
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.