NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 12% (1085MHz vs 967MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 870M +87%

2.599 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960A

1.389 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M

VS

GeForce GTX 960A

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Mar 2015

GeForce 800M

Generation

GeForce 900A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

941 MHz

Base Clock

1029 MHz

967 MHz

Boost Clock

1085 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

120.0GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1344

Shading Units

640

112

TMUs

40

24

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

384 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

27.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.36 GPixel/s

108.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.599 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1389 GFLOPS

108.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GM107

N15E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

N16P-GX-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.0

CUDA

5.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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