GeForce GTX 960 and GeForce RTX 4090 Ti - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 960
GeForce RTX 4090 Ti
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Ada Lovelace
GPU code name
GM206
AD102
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2015
2023
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
2x 16-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
2565 MHz
Core clock speed
1127 MHz
-
CUDA cores
1024
-
Floating-point performance
2,413 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
5 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
76,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
18176
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
600 Watt
Texture fill rate
72 billion/sec
1,457
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
24 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
24 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
1,152 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
+
8.9
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.7
Vulkan
+
1.3
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-