NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile

We compared a Desktop platform GPU: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and a Mobile platform GPU: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (1695MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile +547%

15.62 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 960

2283

GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile +442%

12380

Blender

GeForce GTX 960

189

GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile +1996%

3963

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 960

46

GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile +704%

370

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 960

10

GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile +420%

52

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 960

25

GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile +308%

102

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 960

35

GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile +365%

163

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 960

70

GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile +157%

180

GeForce GTX 960

VS

GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Jan 2023

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 40 Mobile

Desktop

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1395 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

36

1024

Shading Units

4608

64

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

144

-

RT Cores

36

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.36 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

244.1 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

15.62 TFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.62 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

244.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

115W

300 W

Suggested PSU

-

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

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

AD106

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

GN21-X6

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

4 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

Unknown

228 mm²

Die Size

190 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

6.7

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