NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 40% (1683MHz vs 1201MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)
896 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
+162%
6.463 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
2.46 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2018
Release Date
Nov 2015
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1506 MHz
Base Clock
1176 MHz
1683 MHz
Boost Clock
1201 MHz
1001 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
256.3GB/s
Bandwidth
112.2GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
15
SM Count
-
1920
Shading Units
1024
120
TMUs
64
64
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
107.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
38.43 GPixel/s
202.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
76.86 GTexel/s
101.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
6.463 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.460 TFLOPS
202.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
76.86 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
Unknown
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GP104
GPU Name
GM206
GP104-200-A1
GPU Variant
GTX 960 OEM
Pascal
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
28 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
2.94 billion
314 mm²
Die Size
228 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
6.1
CUDA
5.2
6.4
Shader Model
6.7
