NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

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

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Price

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$ 265.00
$ 508.49 significantly less expensive
$ 773.49

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1419 points
16263 points
1046% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS
383 FPS
353 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS
188 FPS
166 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS
278 FPS
258 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS
154 FPS
137 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2293 points
5035 points
119% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

167.72 points
6656.46 points
3868% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points
205515 points
938% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points
188957 points
806% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz
2310 MHz
104% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz
2610 MHz
121% 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
192 Bit
49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.2 GB/s
504.2 GB/s
349% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W
137% significantly lower TDP
285 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

37.7 Gigapixels/s
208.8 Gigapixels/s
453% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s
626.4 Gigatexels/s
730% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.41 TFLOPS
40.09 TFLOPS
1561% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024
7680
650% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

64
240
274% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
80
150% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 586
15th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January
2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 960 vs GeForce RTX 4070 Ti benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 960 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti has a significantly 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 RTX 4070 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 RTX 4070 Ti has significantly more memory with 12 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 RTX 4070 Ti at 285 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti is better than the GeForce GTX 960.

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