GeForce GTX 1070 and GeForce GTX 960 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1070
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
Pascal GP104
GM206
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2016
November 2015
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
8-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1683 MHz
1201 MHz
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
924 MHz
CUDA cores
1920
-
Floating-point performance
6,463 gflops
2,460 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
7,200 million
2,940 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1920
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
-
Maximum GPU temperature
94 °C
-
Texture fill rate
202.0
76.86
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
8 GB/s
7012 MHz
Memory bandwidth
256 GB/s
112.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI
No outputs
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
5.2
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
+
1.1.126
Ansel
+
-
GPU Boost
3.0
-
VR Ready
+
-