GeForce GTX 960 vs GeForce RTX 2080

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce RTX 2080, which features core clock speeds of 1515 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 2944 SPUs along with 184 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce RTX 2080		26155 points
GeForce GTX 960		7627 points
	Difference: 18528 (243%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
GeForce RTX 2080		215 Watts
	Difference: 95 Watts (79%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce RTX 2080 should be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 960 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080		458752 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 346752 (310%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 is a lot (about 286%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080		278760 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 206632 (286%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 should be much (more or less 169%) better at FSAA than the GeForce GTX 960, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080		96960 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 60896 (169%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.