GeForce GTX 1080 and GeForce GTX 960A - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1080 vs GeForce GTX 960A
GeForce GTX 1080
16002
GeForce GTX 960A
3167
GeForce GTX 1080
GeForce GTX 960A
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Pascal GP104
GM107
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2016
March 2015
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
8-pin
-
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1733 MHz
1085 MHz
Core clock speed
1607 MHz
1029 MHz
CUDA cores
2560
-
Floating-point performance
8,873 gflops
1,389 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
7,200 million
1,870 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
640
Power consumption (TDP)
180 Watt
75 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
94 °C
-
Texture fill rate
277.3
43.40
Memory type
GDDR5X
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
10 GB/s
5012 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
80.19 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, DL-DVI
No outputs
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
+
5.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.1.126
Ansel
+
-
GPU Boost
3.0
-
VR Ready
+
-