GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA CMP 70HX

CORE STATE GA104

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1395 MHz

TDP —

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE —

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 970

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1178 MHz

TDP 148 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

41,446

28,528

geekbench_vulkan

35,003

31,001

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

369

geekbench_metal

N/A

13,595

passmark_directx_10

N/A

46

passmark_directx_11

N/A

71

passmark_directx_12

N/A

41

passmark_directx_9

N/A

143

passmark_g2d

N/A

764

passmark_g3d

N/A

9,638

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

4,073

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

CMP 70HX

GTX 970

Core Specs

Shading Units

3,840

1,664 -56.7%

Shaders

3,840

1,664 -56.7%

TMUs

120

104 -13.3%

ROPs

64

56 -12.5%

SM Count

30

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Clocks

Base Clock

1365 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1395 MHz

1178 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz 19 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

4,096 -50.0%

Memory Type

GDDR6X

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

608.3 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

4 MB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

89.28 GPixel/s

65.97 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

167.4 GTexel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

10.71 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

167.4 GFLOPS (1:64)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

10.71 TFLOPS (1:1)

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AI/RT

RT Cores

30

—

Tensor Cores

120

—

Power

TDP

—

148 W

TDP (W)

—

148

Suggested PSU

200 W

300 W

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Ampere

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

GA104

GM204

Generation

Mining GPUs

GeForce 900

Process Size

8 nm

28 nm

Transistors

17,400 million

5,200 million

Die Size

392 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

Samsung

TSMC

Density

44.4M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

8.6

5.2

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

112 mm 4.4 inches

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

No outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x4

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

—

329 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

—

GeForce 700

Successor

—

GeForce 10

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