GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

CORE STATE GK104

VRAM 3 GB

CLOCK SPEED 967 MHz

TDP 100 W

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Kepler

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

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_metal

9,715

13,595

geekbench_opencl

12,630

28,528

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

369

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

31,001

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

GTX 870M

GTX 970

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,344

1,664 +23.8%

Shaders

1,344

1,664 +23.8%

TMUs

112

104 -7.1%

ROPs

24

56 +133.3%

Clocks

Base Clock

941 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

967 MHz

1178 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz 5 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

3 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

3,072

4,096 +33.3%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

192 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

120.0 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

384 KB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

27.08 GPixel/s

65.97 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

108.3 GTexel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.599 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

108.3 GFLOPS (1:24)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

100 W

148 W

TDP (W)

100

148 +48.0%

Suggested PSU

—

300 W

Power Connectors

None

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Kepler

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

GK104

GM204

Generation

GeForce 800M

GeForce 900

Process Size

28 nm

28 nm

Transistors

3,540 million

5,200 million

Die Size

294 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.0M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.2.175

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

3.0

5.2

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

MXM Module

Dual-slot

Length

—

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

—

329 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700M

GeForce 700

Successor

GeForce 900M

GeForce 10

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