GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

CORE STATE GM206

VRAM 2 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1178 MHz

TDP 120 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2015

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

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

162

472

geekbench_metal

8,773

N/A

geekbench_opencl

18,751

18,991

geekbench_vulkan

20,495

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 960

GTX 970M

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,024

1,280 +25.0%

Shaders

1,024

1,280 +25.0%

TMUs

64

80 +25.0%

ROPs

32

48 +50.0%

Clocks

Base Clock

1127 MHz

924 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1038 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 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

128 bit

192 bit

Bandwidth

112.2 GB/s

120.3 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

1024 KB

1536 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

49.82 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.413 TFLOPS

2.657 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)

83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

120 W

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TDP (W)

120

—

Suggested PSU

300 W

—

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

GM206

GM204

Generation

GeForce 900

GeForce 900M

Process Size

28 nm

28 nm

Transistors

2,940 million

5,200 million

Die Size

228 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.9M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

5.2

5.2

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

MXM Module

Length

241 mm 9.5 inches

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Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Portable Device Dependent

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

MXM-B (3.0)

Other

Launch Price

199 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

GeForce 800M

Successor

GeForce 10

GeForce 10 Mobile

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