NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, 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
$ 554.99 significantly less expensive
$ 819.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1419 points
19081 points
1244% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS
424 FPS
394 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS
223 FPS
202 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS
323 FPS
303 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS
180 FPS
163 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2293 points
6821 points
197% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

167.72 points
7588.31 points
4424% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points
239264 points
1108% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points
228386 points
995% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz
2295 MHz
103% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz
2452 MHz
108% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
256 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.2 GB/s
896 GB/s
698% 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
235.4 Gigapixels/s
524% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s
686.6 Gigatexels/s
810% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024
8960
774% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

64
280
337% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
96
200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 586
11th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January
2025 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR7

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 5070 Ti specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 960 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 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 5070 Ti also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 960 has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti at 300 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti is faster than the GeForce GTX 960.

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