GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

CORE STATE GF114

VRAM 2 GB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 100 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Fermi 2.0

nm

PROCESS 40 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2011

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

6,389

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 580M

GTX 970M

Core Specs

Shading Units

384

1,280 +233.3%

Shaders

384

1,280 +233.3%

TMUs

64

80 +25.0%

ROPs

32

48 +50.0%

SM Count

8

—

Clocks

Base Clock

—

924 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1038 MHz

GPU Clock

620 MHz

—

Shader Clock

1240 MHz

—

Memory Clock

750 MHz 3 Gbps effective

1253 MHz 5 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

6 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

6,144 +200.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

192 bit

Bandwidth

96.00 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

9.920 GPixel/s

49.82 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

39.68 GTexel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

952.3 GFLOPS

2.657 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

79.36 GFLOPS (1:12)

83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

100 W

—

TDP (W)

100

—

Power Connectors

None

None

Architecture

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

GF114

GM204

Generation

GeForce 500M

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

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

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