NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti VS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

nvidia

Brand

11GB GDDR5X

Memory

3584

Cores

484.4 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

N/A Mar 2017 View Details

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nvidia

Brand

2GB GDDR5

Memory

1024

Cores

112.2 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce GTX 960

N/A Jan 2015 View Details

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

11GB GDDR5X 250W N/A Mar 2017

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

$699 • Mar 2017

GeForce GTX 960

$199 • Jan 2015

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

2GB GDDR5 120W N/A Jan 2015

Specs Comparison

Specification	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
Memory Size	11 GB	2 GB
Memory Type	GDDR5X	GDDR5
TDP	250 W	120 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	1582 MHz	1178 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	484.4 GB/s	112.2 GB/s
Process Size	16nm	28nm
Architecture	Pascal	Maxwell 2.0
Shading Units	3584	1024
RT Cores	N/A	N/A
TMUs	224	64
ROPs	88	32
Memory Bus	352-bit	128-bit
Memory Clock	1376 MHz	1753 MHz
Pixel Rate	139.2 GPixel/s	37.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	484.4 GTexel/s	112.2 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	11.34 GFLOPS	2.413 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	2.75 MB	1.00 MB
Die Size	471 mm²	228 mm²
Transistors	11800 Million	2940 Million
Required PSU	600 W	300 W
Power Connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	1x 6-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX	12.1	12.1
Vulkan	1.3	1.3
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Foundry	TSMC	TSMC

Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy

Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads

Graphics Score

9688 (+344%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

2183

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

Geekbench 6

Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs

OpenCL Score

74966 (+268%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

20370

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

GFXBench 5.0

Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

118.7 FPS (+282%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

31.1 FPS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

PassMark G2D

Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations

G2D Mark

18594 (+204%)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

6108

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

Game Benchmarks Comparison (221 benchmarks)

Valkyria Chronicles 4

8.5 2018 • Action, RPG, Strategy • SEGA

1080p

| high

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (+181%)

AVG 242 FPS

MIN 219 FPS

GeForce GTX 960

AVG 86 FPS

MIN 79 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (+203%)

AVG 212 FPS

MIN 186 FPS

GeForce GTX 960

AVG 70 FPS

MIN 64 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (+306%)

AVG 146 FPS

MIN 136 FPS

GeForce GTX 960

AVG 36 FPS

MIN 34 FPS

Winner

Loser

Pathfinder Kingmaker

8.5 2018 • Adventure, RPG • Owlcat Games

1080p

| high

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (+84%)

AVG 127 FPS

MIN 117 FPS

GeForce GTX 960

AVG 69 FPS

MIN 66 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (+189%)

AVG 127 FPS

MIN 117 FPS

GeForce GTX 960

AVG 44 FPS

MIN 41 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (+277%)

AVG 83 FPS

MIN 77 FPS

GeForce GTX 960

AVG 22 FPS

MIN 20 FPS

Winner

Loser

Dying Light Bad Blood

7.9 2018 • Action, RPG, Early Access • Techland

1080p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (+293%)

AVG 169 FPS

MIN 136 FPS

GeForce GTX 960

AVG 43 FPS

MIN 37 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (+300%)

AVG 112 FPS

MIN 92 FPS

GeForce GTX 960

AVG 28 FPS

MIN 23 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (+250%)

AVG 56 FPS

MIN 45 FPS

GeForce GTX 960

AVG 16 FPS

MIN 13 FPS

Winner

Loser

Immortal Unchained

8.2 2018 • Action, Adventure, RPG • Toadman Interactive

1080p

| high

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (+250%)

AVG 182 FPS

MIN 168 FPS

GeForce GTX 960

AVG 52 FPS

MIN 47 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (+294%)

AVG 126 FPS

MIN 109 FPS

GeForce GTX 960

AVG 32 FPS

MIN 29 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (+287%)

AVG 58 FPS

MIN 52 FPS

GeForce GTX 960

AVG 15 FPS

MIN 14 FPS

Winner

Loser

Shadows Awakening

8.3 2018 • Action, RPG • Games Farm

1080p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (+295%)

AVG 221 FPS

MIN 204 FPS

GeForce GTX 960

AVG 56 FPS

MIN 53 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (+313%)

AVG 132 FPS

MIN 120 FPS

GeForce GTX 960

AVG 32 FPS

MIN 31 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (+240%)

AVG 51 FPS

MIN 48 FPS

GeForce GTX 960

AVG 15 FPS

MIN 14 FPS

Winner

Loser

Strange Brigade

7.6 2018 • Action, Adventure • Rebellion

1080p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (+277%)

AVG 166 FPS

MIN 127 FPS

GeForce GTX 960

AVG 44 FPS

MIN 35 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (+281%)

AVG 122 FPS

MIN 99 FPS

GeForce GTX 960

AVG 32 FPS

MIN 26 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (+268%)

AVG 70 FPS

MIN 59 FPS

GeForce GTX 960

AVG 19 FPS

MIN 16 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Wins!

Based on 219 benchmarks across 74 games

104

Avg FPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

+230.7%

Avg FPS

GeForce GTX 960