NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 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 RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (1725MHz vs 1201MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

4864 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 +725%

20.31 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.46 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070

VS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Nov 2015

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

1176 MHz

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

1201 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

5888

Shading Units

1024

184

TMUs

64

96

ROPs

32

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.43 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.86 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.460 TFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.86 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GM206

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

GTX 960 OEM

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

220W

TDP

Unknown

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

6.7

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