NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2015
Dec 2018
Generation
GeForce 900
GeForce 10
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1127 MHz
1506 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1683 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
1001 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5X
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
112.2GB/s
256.3GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1024
1920
TMUs
64
120
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
2 MB
SM Count
-
15
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
37.70 GPixel/s
107.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
75.39 GTexel/s
202.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.413 TFLOPS
6.463 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
75.39 GFLOPS
202.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
101.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM206
GP104
GPU Variant
GM206-300-A1
GP104-200-A1
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Pascal
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
16 nm
Transistors
2.94 billion
7.2 billion
Die Size
228 mm²
314 mm²
Board Design
TDP
120W
150W
Suggested PSU
300 W
450 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
5.2
6.1
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
2,300
6,078
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,025
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
10
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
25
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
35
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GTA 5 1080p
70
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