NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 670 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 20% (1178MHz vs 980MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 670 +9%

2.634 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 960 +25%

2283

GeForce GTX 670

1824

Blender

GeForce GTX 960 +7%

189

GeForce GTX 670

176

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 960 +21%

46

GeForce GTX 670

38

GeForce GTX 960

VS

GeForce GTX 670

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

May 2012

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

915 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

980 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

-

1024

Shading Units

1344

64

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.44 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

109.8 GTexel/s

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.634 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

109.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

170W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GK104

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

GK104-325-A2

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

5.2

CUDA

3.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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