GeForce GTX 970M vs GeForce GTX 960M
Summary
GeForce GTX 970M
185%
GeForce GTX 960M
100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 970M |
Around 85% higher average synthetic performance. |
Supports PhysX |
Supports G-Sync |
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 960M |
Supports PhysX |
Supports G-Sync |
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 970M
The GeForce GTX 970M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 970M | | GeForce GTX 960M | |
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GPU Name | GM204 (N16E-GT-A2) | vs | GM107 (N16P-GX-A1) |
Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
Die Size | 398 mm² | vs | 148 mm² |
Transistors | 5,200 million | vs | 1,870 million |
Shaders | 1280 | vs | 640 |
Compute Units | 10 | vs | 5 |
Core clock | 1038 MHz | vs | 1097 MHz |
ROPs | 48 | vs | 16 |
TMUs | 80 | vs | 40 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 970M | | GeForce GTX 960M | |
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Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
Bus Width | 192 bit | vs | 128 bit |
Memory Speed | 1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective | vs | 1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 6144 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 970M | | GeForce GTX 960M | |
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TDP | 0 watts | vs | 75 watts |
Release Date | 7 Oct 2014 | vs | 13 Mar 2015 |
GeForce GTX 970M
49.80 GP/s
GeForce GTX 960M
17.55 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 970M
83.00 GT/s
GeForce GTX 960M
43.90 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 970M
120.30 GB/s
GeForce GTX 960M
80.20 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 970M
2657.30 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 960M
1404.20 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GTX 970M
9860
GeForce GTX 960M
5320
Points (higher is better)