NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2020
Jan 2015
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1440 MHz
1127 MHz
Boost Clock
1710 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
10GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6X
GDDR5
Memory Bus
320bit
128bit
Bandwidth
760.3GB/s
112.2GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
68
—
Shading Units
8704
1024
TMUs
272
64
ROPs
96
32
Tensor Cores
272
—
RT Cores
68
—
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
5 MB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
164.2 GPixel/s
37.70 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
465.1 GTexel/s
75.39 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
29.77 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
29.77 TFLOPS
2.413 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
465.1 GFLOPS
75.39 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA102
GM206
GPU Variant
GA102-200-KD-A1
GM206-300-A1
Architecture
Ampere
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
28.3 billion
2.94 billion
Die Size
628 mm²
228 mm²
Board Design
TDP
320W
120W
Suggested PSU
700 W
300 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
1x 6-pin
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
8.6
5.2
Shader Model
6.6
6.4
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
17,662
2,300
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
8,879
1,025
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
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.