GPU Comparison
GEFORCE
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
CORE STATE
GM204
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1178 MHz
TDP
148 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell 2.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2014
VS
GEFORCE
GeForce GTX TITAN
CORE STATE
GK110
VRAM
6 GB
CLOCK SPEED
876 MHz
TDP
250 W
BUS WIDTH
384 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Kepler
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2013
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
passmark_directx_10
passmark_directx_11
passmark_directx_12
passmark_directx_9
passmark_g2d
passmark_g3d
passmark_gpu_compute
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
GTX 970
GTX TITAN
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,664
2,688
+61.5%
Shaders
1,664
2,688
+61.5%
TMUs
104
224
+115.4%
ROPs
56
48
-14.3%
Clocks
Base Clock
1050 MHz
836 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
876 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
7 Gbps effective
1502 MHz
6 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
4 GB
6 GB
VRAM (MB)
4,096
6,144
+50.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
384 bit
Bandwidth
224.4 GB/s
288.4 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
2 MB
1536 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
49.06 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
196.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
3.920 TFLOPS
4.709 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)
1.570 TFLOPS (1:3)
Power
TDP
148 W
250 W
TDP (W)
148
250
+68.9%
Suggested PSU
300 W
600 W
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Kepler
GPU Name
GM204
GK110
Generation
GeForce 900
GeForce 700
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5,200 million
7,080 million
Die Size
398 mm²
561 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
13.1M / mm²
12.6M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.4
1.2.175
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
CUDA
5.2
3.5
Shader Model
6.8
6.5 (5.1)
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
267 mm
10.5 inches
267 mm
10.5 inches
Height
111 mm
4.4 inches
111 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
329 USD
999 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 700
GeForce 600
Successor
GeForce 10
GeForce 900