GeForce GTX 980 Ti and GeForce GTX 960 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs GeForce GTX 960
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
14228
GeForce GTX 960
6254
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
GeForce GTX 960
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
GM200
GM206
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2015
January 2015
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
600 Watt
400 Watt
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin + 8-pin
1x 6-pins
SLI options
+
+
Boost clock speed
1075 MHz
1178 MHz
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
1127 MHz
CUDA cores
2816
1024
Floating-point performance
6,060 gflops
2,413 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
8,000 million
2,940 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
176 billion/sec
72 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
7.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
336.5 GB/s
112 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Multi monitor support
4 displays
4 displays
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
2048x1536
G-SYNC support
+
+
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
Internal
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
1.1.126
+
GameStream
+
+
GameWorks
+
+
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
+
GPU Boost
2.0
2.0