GeForce RTX 3090 and GeForce GTX 960 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce RTX 3090
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
Architecture
Ampere (2020−2022)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
Ampere GA102
GM206
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2020
November 2015
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 12-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1700 MHz
1201 MHz
Core clock speed
1400 MHz
924 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
2,460 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
8 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
28,300 million
2,940 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
10496
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
350 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
556.0
76.86
Memory type
GDDR6X
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
24 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
19500 MHz
7012 MHz
Memory bandwidth
936.2 GB/s
112.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
8.5
5.2
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.5
6.4
Vulkan
1.2
1.1.126