NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

Price

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$ 459.00

$ 265.00

$ 194.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4293 points

202% significantly better overall score

1419 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

88 FPS

59 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

29 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

71 FPS

49 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

22 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

20 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

57 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

17 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6804 points

196% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2293 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

631.34 points

276% significantly higher Blender score

167.72 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

50088 points

181% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

17784 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

22180 points

152% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

8773 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

52434 points

148% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

21072 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59088 points

164% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

22380 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

22180 points

152% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

8773 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

56994 points

187% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

19796 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

61006 points

192% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

20845 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

42% slightly higher core clock speed

1127 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1683 MHz

42% significantly higher boost clock speed

1178 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256.30 GB/s

128% significantly higher memory bandwidth

112.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W

120 W

49% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

107.7 Gigapixels/s

185% significantly higher pixel rate

37.7 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

255.8 Gigatexels/s

239% significantly higher texture rate

75.39 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.19 TFLOPS

239% significantly better floating point performance

2.41 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2432

137% significantly more shading units

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

152

137% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

119th of 586

239th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2015 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs GeForce GTX 960 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 960 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 960 has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti at 180 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti over the GeForce GTX 960.