GeForce GTX 960 and GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 960 vs GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
GeForce GTX 960
6254
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
27475
GeForce GTX 960
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GM206
Ampere GA102
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2015
January 2022
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
400 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pins
1x 12-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
1260 MHz
Core clock speed
1127 MHz
-
CUDA cores
1024
-
Floating-point performance
2,413 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
28,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
8960
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
350 Watt
Texture fill rate
72 billion/sec
478.8
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
1710 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
912.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
+
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.6
Vulkan
+
1.3
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-