GeForce GTX 570 vs GeForce GTX 960

GeForce GTX 570
Memory: 1280Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Dec 2010
GeForce GTX 570
GeForce GTX 960
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Jan 2015
GeForce GTX 960

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 570
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 960
    177%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 570

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 960

99 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 570 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 77% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 960

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 960

The GeForce GTX 960 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 570GeForce GTX 960
GPU NameGF110 (GF110-275-A1)vsGM206 (GM206-300-A1)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size520 mm²vs228 mm²
Transistors3,000 millionvs2,940 million
Shaders480vs1024
Compute Units15vs8
Core clock732 MHzvs1127 MHz
ROPs40vs32
TMUs60vs64

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 570GeForce GTX 960
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width320 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed950 MHz
3800 MHz effective
vs1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
Memory Size1280 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 570GeForce GTX 960
TDP219 wattsvs120 watts
Release Date7 Dec 2010vs22 Jan 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 570
    22.00 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 960
    36.10 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 570
    43.90 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 960
    72.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 570
    152.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 960
    112.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 570
    1405.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 960
    2308.10 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 570
    5860
  • GeForce GTX 960
    10380

Points (higher is better)