GeForce GTX 960 vs GeForce RTX 2080

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce RTX 2080, which uses a 12 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 1515 MHz. The GDDR6 memory runs at a speed of 1750 MHz on this particular card. It features 2944 SPUs along with 184 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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

In theory, the GeForce RTX 2080 will be 310% faster than the GeForce GTX 960 overall, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 should be a lot (more or less 286%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2080 is superior to the GeForce GTX 960, and very much so. (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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.