NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6249 points

953% significantly better overall score

593 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

129 FPS

116 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

104 FPS

94 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

82 FPS

72 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

83 FPS

74 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

9 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9899 points

703% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1232 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

861.25 points

516% significantly higher Blender score

139.59 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

55628 points

370% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

11818 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

61295 points

400% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

12257 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

85662 points

709% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10582 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

68849 points

494% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11578 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

85261 points

794% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9535 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1480 MHz

34% slightly higher core clock speed

1097 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1582 MHz

34% slightly higher boost clock speed

1176 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

11 GiB

175% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

352 Bit

175% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

484.4 GB/s

504% significantly higher memory bandwidth

80.19 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

65 W

284% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

139.2 Gigapixels/s

639% significantly higher pixel rate

18.82 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

354.4 Gigatexels/s

653% significantly higher texture rate

47.04 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

11.34 TFLOPS

653% significantly better floating point performance

1.50 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

459% significantly more shading units

640

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224

459% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

450% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

77th of 586

310th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 March

2015 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs GeForce GTX 960M benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 960M in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has significantly more memory with 11 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 960M has a significantly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti at 250 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is faster than the GeForce GTX 960M.