GeForce GTX 960 OEM and GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GM206

GA103S

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

November 2015

February 2022

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1201 MHz

1665 MHz

Core clock speed

924 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,460 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

2,940 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1024

4864

Power consumption (TDP)

200 Watt

Texture fill rate

76.86

253.1

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

7012 MHz

14 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

112.2 GB/s

448.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

5.2

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.5

Vulkan

1.1.126

1.3