GPU Comparison
GEFORCE
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE
CORE STATE
GF104
VRAM
1024 MB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
150 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Fermi
PROCESS
40 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2010
VS
GEFORCE
GeForce GTX 970M
CORE STATE
GM204
VRAM
6 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1038 MHz
TDP
—
BUS WIDTH
192 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell 2.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2014
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_vulkan
passmark_directx_10
passmark_directx_11
passmark_directx_12
passmark_directx_9
passmark_g2d
passmark_g3d
passmark_gpu_compute
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
GTX 460 SE
GTX 970M
Core Specs
Shading Units
288
1,280
+344.4%
Shaders
288
1,280
+344.4%
TMUs
48
80
+66.7%
ROPs
32
48
+50.0%
SM Count
6
—
Clocks
Base Clock
—
924 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1038 MHz
GPU Clock
650 MHz
—
Shader Clock
1300 MHz
—
Memory Clock
850 MHz
3.4 Gbps effective
1253 MHz
5 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
1024 MB
6 GB
VRAM (MB)
1,024
6,144
+500.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
192 bit
Bandwidth
108.8 GB/s
120.3 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
1536 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
7.800 GPixel/s
49.82 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
31.20 GTexel/s
83.04 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
748.8 GFLOPS
2.657 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
62.40 GFLOPS (1:12)
83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)
Power
TDP
150 W
—
TDP (W)
150
—
Suggested PSU
450 W
—
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
Fermi
Maxwell 2.0
GPU Name
GF104
GM204
Generation
GeForce 400
GeForce 900M
Process Size
40 nm
28 nm
Transistors
1,950 million
5,200 million
Die Size
332 mm²
398 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
5.9M / mm²
13.1M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
—
1.4
OpenCL
1.1
3.0
CUDA
2.1
5.2
Shader Model
5.1
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
MXM Module
Length
210 mm
8.3 inches
—
Outputs
2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Other
Launch Price
160 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 200
GeForce 800M
Successor
GeForce 500
GeForce 10 Mobile