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 980

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1216 MHz

TDP 165 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_metal

9,715

15,163

geekbench_opencl

12,630

33,457

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

474

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

38,172

passmark_directx_10

N/A

53

passmark_directx_11

N/A

83

passmark_directx_12

N/A

46

passmark_directx_9

N/A

164

passmark_g2d

N/A

792

passmark_g3d

N/A

11,095

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

4,753

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 870M

GTX 980

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,344

2,048 +52.4%

Shaders

1,344

2,048 +52.4%

TMUs

112

128 +14.3%

ROPs

24

64 +166.7%

Clocks

Base Clock

941 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

967 MHz

1216 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

77.82 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

108.3 GTexel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.599 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

108.3 GFLOPS (1:24)

155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

100 W

165 W

TDP (W)

100

165 +65.0%

Suggested PSU

—

450 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

—

549 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700M

GeForce 700

Successor

GeForce 900M

GeForce 10

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