GeForce GTX 970M vs GeForce GTX 960
Summary
GeForce GTX 970M
100%
GeForce GTX 960
105%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 970M |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 960 |
| Around 5% 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 960
The GeForce GTX 960 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 970M | | GeForce GTX 960 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GM204 (N16E-GT-A2) | vs | GM206 (GM206-300-A1) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 398 mm² | vs | 228 mm² |
| Transistors | 5,200 million | vs | 2,940 million |
| Shaders | 1280 | vs | 1024 |
| Compute Units | 10 | vs | 8 |
| Core clock | 1038 MHz | vs | 1127 MHz |
| ROPs | 48 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 80 | vs | 64 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 970M | | GeForce GTX 960 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 192 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective | vs | 1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 6144 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 970M | | GeForce GTX 960 | |
|---|
| TDP | 0 watts | vs | 120 watts |
| Release Date | 7 Oct 2014 | vs | 22 Jan 2015 |
GeForce GTX 970M
49.80 GP/s
GeForce GTX 960
36.10 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 970M
83.00 GT/s
GeForce GTX 960
72.10 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 970M
120.30 GB/s
GeForce GTX 960
112.20 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 970M
2657.30 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 960
2308.10 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GTX 970M
9860
GeForce GTX 960
10380
Points (higher is better)