GPU Comparison
GEFORCE
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M
CORE STATE
GF116
VRAM
1536 MB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
75 W
BUS WIDTH
192 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Fermi 2.0
PROCESS
40 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2011
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 560M
GTX 970M
Core Specs
Shading Units
192
1,280
+566.7%
Shaders
192
1,280
+566.7%
TMUs
32
80
+150.0%
ROPs
24
48
+100.0%
SM Count
4
—
Clocks
Base Clock
—
924 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1038 MHz
GPU Clock
775 MHz
—
Shader Clock
1550 MHz
—
Memory Clock
625 MHz
2.5 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
192 bit
192 bit
Bandwidth
60.00 GB/s
120.3 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
384 KB
1536 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
6.200 GPixel/s
49.82 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
24.80 GTexel/s
83.04 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
595.2 GFLOPS
2.657 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
49.60 GFLOPS (1:12)
83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)
Power
TDP
75 W
—
TDP (W)
75
—
Power Connectors
None
None
Architecture
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
Maxwell 2.0
GPU Name
GF116
GM204
Generation
GeForce 500M
GeForce 900M
Process Size
40 nm
28 nm
Transistors
1,170 million
5,200 million
Die Size
238 mm²
398 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
4.9M / 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
MXM Module
MXM Module
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
MXM-B (3.0)
Other
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 400M
GeForce 800M
Successor
GeForce 600M
GeForce 10 Mobile