NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 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 200W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 110% (2475MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

4864 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 +1108%

29.15 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 960

2283

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 +681%

17853

GeForce GTX 960

VS

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Aug 2024

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1920 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

2475 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

480.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

46

1024

Shading Units

5888

64

TMUs

184

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

36 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

158.4 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

455.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

29.15 TFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.15 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

455.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

200W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

AD104

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

AD104-2XX-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

294 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

8.9

6.4

Shader Model

6.8

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