NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 17% (1379MHz vs 1176MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 115W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q +275%

5.648 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960M

1.505 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q +297%

4891

GeForce GTX 960M

1231

Blender

GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q +176%

512

GeForce GTX 960M

185

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q +250%

112

GeForce GTX 960M

32

GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q

VS

GeForce GTX 960M

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Mar 2015

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1215 MHz

Base Clock

1097 MHz

1379 MHz

Boost Clock

1176 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

-

2048

Shading Units

640

128

TMUs

40

64

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

88.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.82 GPixel/s

176.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

47.04 GTexel/s

88.26 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.648 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.505 TFLOPS

176.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

47.04 GFLOPS

Board Design

115W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GM107

N17E-G2-A1

GPU Variant

N16P-GX-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

5.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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