GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GT 545

CORE STATE GF116

VRAM 1536 MB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 70 W

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Fermi 2.0

nm

PROCESS 40 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2011

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

3,643

28,528

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

369

geekbench_metal

N/A

13,595

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

GT 545

GTX 970

Core Specs

Shading Units

144

1,664 +1055.6%

Shaders

144

1,664 +1055.6%

TMUs

24

104 +333.3%

ROPs

16

56 +250.0%

SM Count

3

—

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1178 MHz

GPU Clock

720 MHz

—

Shader Clock

1440 MHz

—

Memory Clock

800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

1536 MB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

1,536

4,096 +166.7%

Memory Type

DDR3

GDDR5

Memory Bus

192 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

38.40 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

384 KB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

65.97 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

17.28 GTexel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

414.7 GFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

34.56 GFLOPS (1:12)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

70 W

148 W

TDP (W)

70

148 +111.4%

Suggested PSU

250 W

300 W

Power Connectors

None

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

GF116

GM204

Generation

GeForce 500

GeForce 900

Process Size

40 nm

28 nm

Transistors

1,170 million

5,200 million

Die Size

238 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

4.9M / 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

Single-slot

Dual-slot

Length

145 mm 5.7 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x VGA

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

149 USD

329 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 400

GeForce 700

Successor

GeForce 600

GeForce 10

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