NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 43% (1683MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 +167%

6.463 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 960

2284

GeForce GTX 1070 +165%

6066

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 960

10

GeForce GTX 1070 +160%

26

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 960

25

GeForce GTX 1070 +100%

50

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 960

35

GeForce GTX 1070 +120%

77

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 960

70

GeForce GTX 1070 +111%

148

GeForce GTX 960

VS

GeForce GTX 1070

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1683 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

15

-

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

1920

64

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.7 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

202.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

101.0 GFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.463 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

202.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GP104

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-200-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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