GeForce GTX 960M vs GeForce GTX 1070
Summary
GeForce GTX 960M
100%
GeForce GTX 1070
464%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 960M |
| 75 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 1070 . |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 1070 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Around 364% higher average synthetic performance. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1070
The GeForce GTX 1070 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 960M | | GeForce GTX 1070 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GM107 (N16P-GX-A1) | vs | GP104 (GP104-200-A1) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 16 nm |
| Die Size | 148 mm² | vs | 314 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,870 million | vs | 7,200 million |
| Shaders | 640 | vs | 1920 |
| Compute Units | 5 | vs | 15 |
| Core clock | 1097 MHz | vs | 1506 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 64 |
| TMUs | 40 | vs | 120 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 960M | | GeForce GTX 1070 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective | vs | 2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 8192 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 960M | | GeForce GTX 1070 | |
|---|
| TDP | 75 watts | vs | 150 watts |
| Release Date | 13 Mar 2015 | vs | 10 Jun 2016 |
GeForce GTX 960M
17.55 GP/s
GeForce GTX 1070
96.40 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 960M
43.90 GT/s
GeForce GTX 1070
180.70 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 960M
80.20 GB/s
GeForce GTX 1070
256.30 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 960M
1404.20 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 1070
5783.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GTX 960M
5320
GeForce GTX 1070
24720
Points (higher is better)