GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

CORE STATE GM206

VRAM 2 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1178 MHz

TDP 120 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2015

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile

CORE STATE AD106

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1695 MHz

TDP 115 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ada Lovelace

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2023

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

162

N/A

geekbench_metal

8,773

N/A

geekbench_opencl

18,751

109,197

geekbench_vulkan

20,495

108,367

passmark_directx_10

N/A

116

passmark_directx_11

N/A

179

passmark_directx_12

N/A

85

passmark_directx_9

N/A

223

passmark_g2d

N/A

763

passmark_g3d

N/A

19,587

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

8,399

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 960

RTX 4070 Mobile

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,024

4,608 +350.0%

Shaders

1,024

4,608 +350.0%

TMUs

64

144 +125.0%

ROPs

32

48 +50.0%

SM Count

—

36

Clocks

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1395 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1695 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

2000 MHz 16 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

8 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

8,192 +300.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

128 bit

128 bit

Bandwidth

112.2 GB/s

256.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

1024 KB

32 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

81.36 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

244.1 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.413 TFLOPS

15.62 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)

244.1 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

15.62 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

36

Tensor Cores

—

144

Power

TDP

120 W

115 W

TDP (W)

120

115 -4.2%

Suggested PSU

300 W

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Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Ada Lovelace

GPU Name

GM206

AD106

Generation

GeForce 900

GeForce 40 Mobile

Process Size

28 nm

5 nm

Transistors

2,940 million

22,900 million

Die Size

228 mm²

188 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.9M / mm²

121.8M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

5.2

8.9

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

IGP

Length

241 mm 9.5 inches

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Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Portable Device Dependent

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Other

Launch Price

199 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

Active

Predecessor

GeForce 700

GeForce 30 Mobile

Successor

GeForce 10

GeForce 50 Mobile

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