NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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Graphics Processor

GPU model GP104 GM206
GPU variant GP104-200-A1 GM206-300-A1
Architecture Pascal Maxwell 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 16 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 7,200 million 2,940 million
Die size 314 mm² 228 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Jun 10th, 2016 Jan 22nd, 2015
Generation GeForce 10 GeForce 900
Predecessor GeForce 900 GeForce 700
Successor GeForce 20 GeForce 10
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Launch price 379 USD 199 USD
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 125 in our database 124 in our database

Clocks

Base clock 1506 MHz 1127 MHz
Boost clock 1683 MHz 1178 MHz
Memory clock 2002 MHz 8 Gbps effective 1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 8 GB 2 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 256 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 256.3 GB/s 112.2 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 1920 1024
TMUs 120 64
ROPs 64 32
SM count 15
Cache L1 48 KB (per SM) 48 KB (per SMM)
Cache L2 2 MB 1024 KB
SMM count 8

Performance

Pixel rate 107.7 GPixel/s 37.70 GPixel/s
Texture rate 202.0 GTexel/s 75.39 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) performance 101.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP32 (float) performance 6.463 TFLOPS 2.413 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 202.0 GFLOPS (1:32) 75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
Length 267 mm 10.5 inches 241 mm 9.5 inches
Width 112 mm 4.4 inches
Height 40 mm 1.6 inches
TDP 150 W 120 W
Suggested PSU 450 W 300 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI3x DisplayPort 1x DVI1x HDMI3x DisplayPort
Power connectors 1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin
Board number PG411 SKU 20 PG301

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (12_1) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.1
CUDA 6.1 5.2
Shader model 6.4 6.4

Other Features

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