NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1201MHz vs 1178MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +59%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.46 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Nov 2015

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1176 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1201 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1664

Shading Units

1024

104

TMUs

64

56

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.43 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.86 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.460 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.86 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GM206

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

GTX 960 OEM

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

Unknown

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

5.2

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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