GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs GTX 1070 SLI Mobile

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking93not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code namePascal GP104 SLIGM206
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date16 August 2016 (8 years ago)26 November 2015 (8 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores40961024
Core clock speed1443 MHz1176 MHz
Boost clock speed1645 MHz1201 MHz
Number of transistors14400 Million2,940 million
Manufacturing process technology16 nm28 nm
Texture fill rateno data76.86
Floating-point processing powerno data2.46 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data64

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone
SLI options+-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2x 8 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed8000 MHz1753 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data112.2 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno dataNo outputs
G-SYNC support+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Ready+no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12_112 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan+1.1.126
CUDA+5.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 16 August 2016 26 November 2015
Chip lithography 16 nm 28 nm

GTX 1070 SLI Mobile has an age advantage of 8 months, and a 75% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile and GeForce GTX 960 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile is a notebook card while GeForce GTX 960 OEM is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile
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