GeForce GTX 960 OEM and GeForce RTX 3060 Ti - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GM206
Ampere GA104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2015
December 2020
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
1410 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,460 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
17,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
4864
Power consumption (TDP)
-
220 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
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112.2 GB/s
448.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
5.2
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.5
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2