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    GeForce GTX 970M vs GeForce GTX 960 OEM

    GeForce GTX 970M
    Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 7 Oct 2014
    GeForce GTX 970M
    GeForce GTX 960 OEM
    Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
    Release date: 26 Nov 2015
    GeForce GTX 960 OEM
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    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce GTX 970M
      100%
    • GeForce GTX 960 OEM
      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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 OEM

    This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
    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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
    GeForce GTX 960 OEM

    HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 960 OEM

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

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce GTX 970MGeForce GTX 960 OEM
    GPU NameGM204 (N16E-GT-A2)vsGM204 (GTX 960 OEM)
    Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size398 mm²vs398 mm²
    Transistors5,200 millionvs5,200 million
    Shaders1280vs1280
    Compute Units10vs10
    Core clock1038 MHzvs924 MHz
    ROPs48vs48
    TMUs80vs80

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 970MGeForce GTX 960 OEM
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
    Bus Width192 bitvs192 bit
    Memory Speed1253 MHz
    5012 MHz effective    		vs1253 MHz
    5012 MHz effective
    Memory Size6144 Mbvs3072 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 970MGeForce GTX 960 OEM
    TDP0 wattsvs0 watts
    Release Date7 Oct 2014vs26 Nov 2015

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 970M
      49.80 GP/s
    • GeForce GTX 960 OEM
      44.40 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 970M
      83.00 GT/s
    • GeForce GTX 960 OEM
      73.90 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GTX 970M
      120.30 GB/s
    • GeForce GTX 960 OEM
      120.00 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 970M
      2657.30 GFLOPs
    • GeForce GTX 960 OEM
      2365.00 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce GTX 970M
      9860
    • GeForce GTX 960 OEM
      10380

    Points (higher is better)

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