GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile and GeForce GTX 960 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
GeForce GTX 960
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
N17E-G3
GM206
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
August 2016
January 2015
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
-
400 Watt
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pins
SLI options
+
+
Boost clock speed
1733 MHz
1178 MHz
Core clock speed
1607 MHz
1127 MHz
CUDA cores
2560
1024
Floating-point performance
9,068 gflops
2,413 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
7,200 million
2,940 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
120 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
94 °C
-
Texture fill rate
283.4
72 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
10 GB/s
7.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
112 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, DL-DVI
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Multi monitor support
+
4 displays
HDMI
-
+
HDCP
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
G-SYNC support
+
+
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
+
Ansel
+
-
GameStream
-
+
GameWorks
-
+
GeForce ShadowPlay
-
+
GPU Boost
3.0
2.0
VR Ready
+
-