GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce 930M

CORE STATE GM108S

VRAM 2 GB

CLOCK SPEED 549 MHz

TDP 33 W

BUS WIDTH 64 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2015

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_opencl

5,138

28,528

geekbench_vulkan

4,715

31,001

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

369

geekbench_metal

N/A

13,595

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

930M

GTX 970

Core Specs

Shading Units

384

1,664 +333.3%

Shaders

384

1,664 +333.3%

TMUs

24

104 +333.3%

ROPs

8

56 +600.0%

Clocks

Base Clock

549 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

549 MHz

1178 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

4,096 +100.0%

Memory Type

DDR3

GDDR5

Memory Bus

64 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

12.80 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

1024 KB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

4.392 GPixel/s

65.97 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

13.18 GTexel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

421.6 GFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

13.18 GFLOPS (1:32)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

33 W

148 W

TDP (W)

33

148 +348.5%

Suggested PSU

—

300 W

Power Connectors

None

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

GM108S

GM204

Generation

GeForce 900M

GeForce 900

Process Size

28 nm

28 nm

Transistors

1,020 million

5,200 million

Die Size

77 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.2M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

5.0

5.2

Shader Model

6.7 (5.1)

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

IGP

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

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

—

329 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 800M

GeForce 700

Successor

GeForce 10 Mobile

GeForce 10

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