NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

Price

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$ 265.00

$ 368.11 significantly less expensive

$ 633.11

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1419 points

10078 points

610% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

217 FPS

188 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

153 FPS

132 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS

153 FPS

134 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

115 FPS

98 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2293 points

14639 points

538% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

167.72 points

3056.90 points

1722% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17784 points

176681 points

893% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points

145322 points

589% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380 points

132328 points

491% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points

145114 points

633% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points

134471 points

545% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz

1350 MHz

19% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

1545 MHz

31% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

11 GiB

175% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

352 Bit

175% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.2 GB/s

616 GB/s

449% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

108% significantly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

37.7 Gigapixels/s

136 Gigapixels/s

260% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s

420.2 Gigatexels/s

457% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.41 TFLOPS

13.45 TFLOPS

457% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

4352

325% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

272

325% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

175% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 586

37th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January

2018 September

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 2080 Ti comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti beats the GeForce GTX 960 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 2080 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 RTX 2080 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti has significantly more memory with 11 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 960 has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti at 250 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is better than the GeForce GTX 960.