PNY GeForce RTX 4090 24GB XLR8 Gaming REVEL EPIC-X RGB Triple Fan
vs
GALAX GeForce GTX 960 Reference Design


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The PNY GeForce RTX 4090 24GB XLR8 Gaming REVEL EPIC-X RGB Triple Fan has 16384 shader units and these clock a maximum of 2.52 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 82.58 TFLOPS.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 960 Reference Design has 1024 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.18 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 2.41 TFLOPS.

GPU

The PNY GeForce RTX 4090 24GB XLR8 Gaming REVEL EPIC-X RGB Triple Fan is equipped with a graphics chip of the Ada Lovelace architecture, which has 128 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card GALAX GeForce GTX 960 Reference Design is based on the Maxwell 2.0 architecture and is equipped with 8 execution units.
PNY GeForce RTX 4090 24GB XLR8 Gaming REVEL EPIC-X RGB Triple Fan GPU GALAX GeForce GTX 960 Reference Design
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
AD102-300-A1 GPU Chip GM206-300-A1
Ada Lovelace Architecture Maxwell 2.0
128 Streaming Multiprocessors 8
16384 Shader 1024
176 Render Output Units 32
512 Texture Units 64
128 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The PNY GeForce RTX 4090 24GB XLR8 Gaming REVEL EPIC-X RGB Triple Fan is equipped with a 24 GB large GDDR6X graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.313 GHz clocks.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 960 Reference Design has a 2 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.753GHz.

24 GB Memory Size 2 GB
GDDR6X Memory Type GDDR5
1.313 GHz Memory Clock 1.753 GHz
21.0 Gbps Memory Speed 7.0 Gbps
1008 GB/s Memory bandwidth 112 GB/s
384 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The PNY GeForce RTX 4090 24GB XLR8 Gaming REVEL EPIC-X RGB Triple Fan has a turbo clock of 2.520 GHz. The turbo frequency of the GALAX GeForce GTX 960 Reference Design is 1.178 GHz.

2.235 GHz Base Clock 1.127 GHz
2.520 GHz Boost Clock 1.178 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The PNY GeForce RTX 4090 24GB XLR8 Gaming REVEL EPIC-X RGB Triple Fan has 1 x 16-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 90 °C.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 960 Reference Design is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 98 °C.

450 W TDP 120 W
450 W TDP (up) --
90 °C Tjunction max 98 °C
1 x 16-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the PNY GeForce RTX 4090 24GB XLR8 Gaming REVEL EPIC-X RGB Triple Fan are cooled with a Air cooling.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 960 Reference Design is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Radial
3 x 90 mm Fan 1 1 x 65 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The PNY GeForce RTX 4090 24GB XLR8 Gaming REVEL EPIC-X RGB Triple Fan supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 960 Reference Design supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.1 HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0
3x DP v1.4a DP Ports 3x DP v1.2
-- DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The PNY GeForce RTX 4090 24GB XLR8 Gaming REVEL EPIC-X RGB Triple Fan supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The GALAX GeForce GTX 960 Reference Design supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 4096x2160
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_1
Yes Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR No
Addressable LED LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC No
Decode AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 No

Dimensions

The PNY GeForce RTX 4090 24GB XLR8 Gaming REVEL EPIC-X RGB Triple Fan is 70 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the GALAX GeForce GTX 960 Reference Design is 70 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

329 mm Length 255 mm
141 mm Height 124 mm
70 mm Width 41 mm
4 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 5 nanometer process, PNY GeForce RTX 4090 24GB XLR8 Gaming REVEL EPIC-X RGB Triple Fan was released in Q1/2023.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 960 Reference Design published in Q1/2015 is manufactured with a structure width of 28 nanometers.

VCG409024TFXPPB Part-no --
Q1/2023 Release date Q1/2015
1,599 $ (Reference) Launch Price 199 $
5 nm Structure size 28 nm
data sheet Documents --

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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