NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 22% (1176MHz vs 967MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960M

1.505 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M +72%

2.599 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960M

VS

GeForce GTX 870M

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1097 MHz

Base Clock

941 MHz

1176 MHz

Boost Clock

967 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

120.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

1344

40

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.08 GPixel/s

47.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.505 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.599 TFLOPS

47.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

108.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

GK104

N16P-GX-A1

GPU Variant

N15E-GT-A2

Maxwell

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

5.0

CUDA

3.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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