NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 TiM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM 's Advantages
Released 7 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 17% (1410MHz vs 1201MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)
4864 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
2.46 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3070 TiM
+574%
16.6 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2015
Release Date
Nov 2022
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1176 MHz
Base Clock
915 MHz
1201 MHz
Boost Clock
1410 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
112.2GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
46
1024
Shading Units
5888
64
TMUs
184
32
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
184
-
RT Cores
46
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
38.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
135.4 GPixel/s
76.86 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
259.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
16.60 TFLOPS
2.460 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
16.60 TFLOPS
76.86 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
259.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
220W
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
GA104
GTX 960 OEM
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
228 mm²
Die Size
392 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
8.6
6.7
Shader Model
6.6
