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

Quadro 2000D

CORE STATE GF106

VRAM 1024 MB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 62 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE Fermi

nm

PROCESS 40 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2011

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

369

N/A

geekbench_metal

13,595

N/A

geekbench_opencl

28,528

3,930

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

Quadro 2000D

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,664

192 -88.5%

Shaders

1,664

192 -88.5%

TMUs

104

32 -69.2%

ROPs

56

16 -71.4%

SM Count

—

4

Clocks

Base Clock

1050 MHz

—

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

—

GPU Clock

—

625 MHz

Shader Clock

—

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

650 MHz 2.6 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

1024 MB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

1,024 -75.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

128 bit

Bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

41.60 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

64 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

256 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

5.000 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

20.00 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.920 TFLOPS

480.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

40.00 GFLOPS (1:12)

Power

TDP

148 W

62 W

TDP (W)

148

62 -58.1%

Suggested PSU

300 W

250 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Fermi

GPU Name

GM204

GF106

Generation

GeForce 900

Quadro Fermi (x000)

Process Size

28 nm

40 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

1,170 million

Die Size

398 mm²

238 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.1M / mm²

4.9M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (11_0)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

—

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

CUDA

5.2

2.1

Shader Model

6.8

5.1

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Single-slot

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

178 mm 7 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

2x DVI

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

329 USD

599 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

Quadro FX Tesla

Successor

GeForce 10

Quadro Kepler

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