NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

593 points
5934 points
900% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS
150 FPS
137 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS
75 FPS
65 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS
103 FPS
93 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS
57 FPS
48 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.59 points
3004.43 points
2052% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

11818 points
122041 points
932% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12257 points
111833 points
812% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10582 points
84673 points
700% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11578 points
102733 points
787% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9535 points
96388 points
910% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1097 MHz
1110 MHz
1% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1176 MHz
1560 MHz
32% slightly 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

80.19 GB/s
448 GB/s
458% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W
76% significantly lower TDP
115 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.82 Gigapixels/s
124.8 Gigapixels/s
563% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

47.04 Gigatexels/s
249.6 Gigatexels/s
430% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.50 TFLOPS
15.97 TFLOPS
961% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640
5120
700% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

40
160
300% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
80
400% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

310th of 586
83rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 March
2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 960M vs GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 960M in our tests.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop over the GeForce GTX 960M.

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