NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 24 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Price

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$ 265.00

$ 1234.95 significantly less expensive

$ 1499.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1419 points

16207 points

1042% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

382 FPS

353 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

188 FPS

166 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS

275 FPS

256 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

151 FPS

134 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2293 points

21929 points

856% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

167.72 points

6069.41 points

3518% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17784 points

260346 points

1363% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points

229738 points

990% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380 points

141134 points

530% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points

207329 points

947% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points

187369 points

798% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz

1560 MHz

38% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

1560 MHz

32% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

24 GiB

499% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

384 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.2 GB/s

1008 GB/s

798% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

274% significantly lower TDP

450 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

37.7 Gigapixels/s

208.3 Gigapixels/s

452% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s

625 Gigatexels/s

729% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.41 TFLOPS

40 TFLOPS

1557% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

10752

950% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

336

424% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

250% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 586

16th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January

2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6X

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 3090 Ti specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 960 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti has significantly more memory with 24 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 3090 Ti at 450 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti is faster than the GeForce GTX 960.