NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Ti and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 50% (1770MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

5120 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti +801%

21.75 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti +555%

14971

GeForce GTX 960

2284

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti +600%

70

GeForce GTX 960

10

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti +400%

125

GeForce GTX 960

25

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti +408%

178

GeForce GTX 960

35

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti +134%

164

GeForce GTX 960

70

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

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GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

May 2021

Release Date

Jan 2015

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1575 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1770 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

608.3GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

48

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

6144

Shading Units

1024

192

TMUs

64

96

ROPs

32

192

Tensor Cores

-

48

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

169.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

339.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

21.75 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

21.75 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

339.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GM206

GA104-400-A1

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

290W

TDP

120W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

5.2

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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