GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

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

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GRID K2

CORE STATE GK104

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 225 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Kepler

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2013

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

369

N/A

geekbench_metal

13,595

5,557

geekbench_opencl

28,528

10,593

geekbench_vulkan

31,001

N/A

passmark_directx_10

46

N/A

passmark_directx_11

71

N/A

passmark_directx_12

41

N/A

passmark_directx_9

143

N/A

passmark_g2d

764

N/A

passmark_g3d

9,638

N/A

passmark_gpu_compute

4,073

N/A

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 970

GRID K2

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,664

1,536 -7.7%

Shaders

1,664

1,536 -7.7%

TMUs

104

128 +23.1%

ROPs

56

32 -42.9%

Clocks

Base Clock

1050 MHz

—

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

—

GPU Clock

—

745 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1250 MHz 5 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

4,096 0.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

160.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

16 KB (per SMX)

L2 Cache

2 MB

512 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

23.84 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

95.36 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.920 TFLOPS

2.289 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

95.36 GFLOPS (1:24)

Power

TDP

148 W

225 W

TDP (W)

148

225 +52.0%

Suggested PSU

300 W

550 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Kepler

GPU Name

GM204

GK104

Generation

GeForce 900

GRID (K2)

Process Size

28 nm

28 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

3,540 million

Die Size

398 mm²

294 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.1M / mm²

12.0M / 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

3.0

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

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Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

No outputs

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

329 USD

5,199 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

—

Successor

GeForce 10

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