NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Price

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$ 265.00

$ 1554.99 significantly less expensive

$ 1819.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1419 points

33119 points

2233% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

787 FPS

757 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

382 FPS

360 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS

567 FPS

547 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

318 FPS

301 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2293 points

9236 points

302% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

167.72 points

11723.75 points

6889% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points

318192 points

1507% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points

273214 points

1210% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz

2235 MHz

98% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

2520 MHz

113% significantly 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

1010 GB/s

800% 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

483.8 Gigapixels/s

1183% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s

1290 Gigatexels/s

1611% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.41 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

3322% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

16384

1500% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

512

700% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192

499% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 586

2nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January

2022 October

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 4090 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4090 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 960 in gaming.

The GeForce RTX 4090 has a significantly 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 4090 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 4090 has significantly more memory with 24 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 4090 at 450 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 RTX 4090 is faster than the GeForce GTX 960.