GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

CORE STATE GF100

VRAM 1536 MB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 250 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE Fermi

nm

PROCESS 40 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2010

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 970M

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 6 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1038 MHz

TDP —

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

13,300

18,991

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

472

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

18,516

passmark_directx_10

N/A

28

passmark_directx_11

N/A

42

passmark_directx_12

N/A

24

passmark_directx_9

N/A

99

passmark_g2d

N/A

381

passmark_g3d

N/A

5,704

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

2,289

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 480

GTX 970M

Core Specs

Shading Units

480

1,280 +166.7%

Shaders

480

1,280 +166.7%

TMUs

60

80 +33.3%

ROPs

48

48 0.0%

SM Count

15

—

Clocks

Base Clock

—

924 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1038 MHz

GPU Clock

701 MHz

—

Shader Clock

1401 MHz

—

Memory Clock

924 MHz 3.7 Gbps effective

1253 MHz 5 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

1536 MB

6 GB

VRAM (MB)

1,536

6,144 +300.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

384 bit

192 bit

Bandwidth

177.4 GB/s

120.3 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

768 KB

1536 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

21.03 GPixel/s

49.82 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

42.06 GTexel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

1,345.0 GFLOPS

2.657 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

168.1 GFLOPS (1:8)

83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

250 W

—

TDP (W)

250

—

Suggested PSU

600 W

—

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

Fermi

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

GF100

GM204

Generation

GeForce 400

GeForce 900M

Process Size

40 nm

28 nm

Transistors

3,100 million

5,200 million

Die Size

529 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

2.0

5.2

Shader Model

5.1

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

MXM Module

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

—

Outputs

2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Portable Device Dependent

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

MXM-B (3.0)

Other

Launch Price

499 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 200

GeForce 800M

Successor

GeForce 500

GeForce 10 Mobile

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