GeForce GTX 1070 and GeForce GTX 960 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1070 vs GeForce GTX 960
GeForce GTX 1070
13916
GeForce GTX 960
6254
GeForce GTX 1070
GeForce GTX 960
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Pascal GP104
GM206
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2016
January 2015
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
400 Watt
Supplementary power connectors
8-pin
1x 6-pins
SLI options
+
+
Boost clock speed
1683 MHz
1178 MHz
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
1127 MHz
CUDA cores
1920
1024
Floating-point performance
6,463 gflops
2,413 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
120 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
94 °C
-
Texture fill rate
202.0
72 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
8 GB/s
7.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
256 GB/s
112 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Multi monitor support
+
4 displays
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
G-SYNC support
+
+
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
+
+
Ansel
+
-
GameStream
-
+
GameWorks
-
+
GeForce ShadowPlay
-
+
GPU Boost
3.0
2.0
VR Ready
+
-