NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2015
Jun 2017
Generation
GeForce 900
GeForce 10 Mobile
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1127 MHz
1215 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1379 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
2002 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
112.2GB/s
256.3GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1024
2048
TMUs
64
128
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
2 MB
SM Count
-
16
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
37.70 GPixel/s
88.26 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
75.39 GTexel/s
176.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.413 TFLOPS
5.648 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
75.39 GFLOPS
176.5 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
88.26 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM206
GP104
GPU Variant
GM206-300-A1
N17E-G2-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
115W
Suggested PSU
300 W
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None
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
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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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