GeForce GTX 960 OEM and GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

Fermi (2010−2014)

GPU code name

GM206

GF100

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

November 2015

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1201 MHz

Core clock speed

924 MHz

608 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,460 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

2,940 million

3,100 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1024

448

Power consumption (TDP)

215 Watt

Texture fill rate

76.86

34.05

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

1280 MB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

320 Bit

Memory clock speed

7012 MHz

3.3 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

112.2 GB/s

133.9 GB/s

Display Connectors

No outputs

2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

5.2

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

5.1

Vulkan

1.1.126

N/A