NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER 8 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

1419 points

5072 points

257% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

106 FPS

77 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

75 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS

75 FPS

55 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

56 FPS

39 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2293 points

8739 points

281% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

167.72 points

2209.96 points

1217% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17784 points

95114 points

434% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points

85216 points

304% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380 points

73672 points

229% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points

90113 points

355% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points

85182 points

308% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz

1407 MHz

24% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

1650 MHz

40% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.2 GB/s

448 GB/s

299% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

45% significantly lower TDP

175 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

37.7 Gigapixels/s

105.6 Gigapixels/s

180% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s

224.4 Gigatexels/s

197% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.41 TFLOPS

7.18 TFLOPS

197% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

2176

112% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

136

112% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 586

100th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January

2019 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 960 vs GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 960 in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER 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 RTX 2060 SUPER also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 960 has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER at 175 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER is faster than the GeForce GTX 960.