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
P104-100
CORE STATE
GP104
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1733 MHz
TDP
—
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Pascal
PROCESS
16 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2017
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
P104-100
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,664
1,920
+15.4%
Shaders
1,664
1,920
+15.4%
TMUs
104
120
+15.4%
ROPs
56
64
+14.3%
SM Count
—
15
Clocks
Base Clock
1050 MHz
1607 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1733 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
7 Gbps effective
1251 MHz
10 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
4 GB
4 GB
VRAM (MB)
4,096
4,096
0.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5X
Memory Bus
256 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
224.4 GB/s
320.3 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
2 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
110.9 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
208.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
3.920 TFLOPS
6.655 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)
208.0 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
104.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
Power
TDP
148 W
—
TDP (W)
148
—
Suggested PSU
300 W
200 W
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Pascal
GPU Name
GM204
GP104
Generation
GeForce 900
Mining GPUs
Process Size
28 nm
16 nm
Transistors
5,200 million
7,200 million
Die Size
398 mm²
314 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
13.1M / mm²
22.9M / 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
6.1
Shader Model
6.8
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
267 mm
10.5 inches
267 mm
10.5 inches
Height
111 mm
4.4 inches
—
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x4
Other
Launch Price
329 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 700
—
Successor
GeForce 10
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