GeForce RTX 3070 vs GeForce GTX 960
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 46% (1725MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)
4864 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages
Lower TDP (120W vs 220W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3070
+741%
20310
GeForce GTX 960
2413
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 3070
+493%
13641
GeForce GTX 960
2300
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 3070
+559%
6762
GeForce GTX 960
1025
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce RTX 3070
+430%
53
GeForce GTX 960
10
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce RTX 3070
+280%
95
GeForce GTX 960
25
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce RTX 3070
+311%
144
GeForce GTX 960
35
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 3070
+127%
159
GeForce GTX 960
70
Graphics Card
Sep 2020
Release Date
Jan 2015
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1500 MHz
Base Clock
1127 MHz
1725 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
112.2GB/s
Render Config
46
SM Count
-
5888
Shading Units
1024
184
TMUs
64
96
ROPs
32
184
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
165.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
37.70 GPixel/s
317.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
75.39 GTexel/s
20.31 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
20.31 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.413 TFLOPS
317.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
75.39 GFLOPS
Board Design
220W
TDP
120W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
GM206
GA104-300-A1
GPU Variant
GM206-300-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
2.94 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
228 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.6
CUDA
5.2
6.6
Shader Model
6.4
