NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Price

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$ 265.00

$ 276.95 significantly less expensive

$ 541.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1419 points

12174 points

757% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

289 FPS

259 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

141 FPS

120 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS

206 FPS

187 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

114 FPS

96 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2293 points

3862 points

68% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

167.72 points

5402.96 points

3121% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points

168368 points

750% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points

158623 points

660% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz

2190 MHz

94% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

2430 MHz

106% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

12 GiB

200% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

160 Bit

25% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.2 GB/s

360 GB/s

220% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

150% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

37.7 Gigapixels/s

194.4 Gigapixels/s

415% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s

544.3 Gigatexels/s

621% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.41 TFLOPS

34.84 TFLOPS

1343% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

7168

599% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224

250% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

150% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

245th of 601

31st of 601

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 960 vs GeForce RTX 4070 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4070 beats the GeForce GTX 960 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4070 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce RTX 4070 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 4070 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 960 has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4070 at 300 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 4070 is faster than the GeForce GTX 960.