NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 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 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
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages
Lower TDP (120W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
+1108%
29.15 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 960
2.413 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2024
Release Date
Jan 2015
GeForce 40
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1920 MHz
Base Clock
1127 MHz
2475 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
2500 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
480.0GB/s
Bandwidth
112.2GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
46
SM Count
-
5888
Shading Units
1024
184
TMUs
64
64
ROPs
32
184
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
36 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
158.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
37.70 GPixel/s
455.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
75.39 GTexel/s
29.15 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
29.15 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.413 TFLOPS
455.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
75.39 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
120W
550 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 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
GM206
AD104-2XX-A1
GPU Variant
GM206-300-A1
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
28 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
2.94 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
228 mm²
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
8.9
CUDA
5.2
6.8
Shader Model
6.4
