NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 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 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 110% (2475MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/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 +1108%

29.15 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4070 +681%

17859

GeForce GTX 960

2284

Blender

GeForce RTX 4070 +3038%

6026

GeForce GTX 960

192

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 4070 +1295%

642

GeForce GTX 960

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 4070 +720%

82

GeForce GTX 960

10

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 4070 +540%

160

GeForce GTX 960

25

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 4070 +631%

256

GeForce GTX 960

35

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4070 +171%

190

GeForce GTX 960

70

GeForce RTX 4070

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GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Apr 2023

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

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

5888

Shading Units

1024

184

TMUs

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

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

GM206

AD104-250-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

295 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

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 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

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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