GeForce GTX 960 and GeForce RTX 3080 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 960 vs GeForce RTX 3080
GeForce GTX 960
6254
GeForce RTX 3080
26041
GeForce GTX 960
GeForce RTX 3080
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GM206
Ampere GA102
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2015
September 2020
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
1710 MHz
Core clock speed
1127 MHz
1450 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
8704
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
320 Watt
Texture fill rate
72 billion/sec
465.1
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
10 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
320 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
19000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
760.3 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
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
+
8.5
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.5
Vulkan
+
1.2
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-