GeForce GTX 970M vs GeForce GTX 960M

GeForce GTX 970M
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 7 Oct 2014
GeForce GTX 970M
GeForce GTX 960M
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce GTX 960M

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 970M

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 970M

The GeForce GTX 970M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 970MGeForce GTX 960M
GPU NameGM204 (N16E-GT-A2)vsGM107 (N16P-GX-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size398 mm²vs148 mm²
Transistors5,200 millionvs1,870 million
Shaders1280vs640
Compute Units10vs5
Core clock1038 MHzvs1097 MHz
ROPs48vs16
TMUs80vs40

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 970MGeForce GTX 960M
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 970MGeForce GTX 960M
TDP0 wattsvs75 watts
Release Date7 Oct 2014vs13 Mar 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 970M
    49.80 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 960M
    17.55 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 970M
    83.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 960M
    43.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 970M
    120.30 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 960M
    80.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 970M
    2657.30 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 960M
    1404.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 970M
    9860
  • GeForce GTX 960M
    5320

Points (higher is better)

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