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 K4000

CORE STATE GK106

VRAM 3 GB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 80 W

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Kepler

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2013

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

369

N/A

geekbench_metal

13,595

3,614

geekbench_opencl

28,528

6,666

geekbench_vulkan

31,001

6,888

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 K4000

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,664

768 -53.8%

Shaders

1,664

768 -53.8%

TMUs

104

64 -38.5%

ROPs

56

24 -57.1%

Clocks

Base Clock

1050 MHz

—

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

—

GPU Clock

—

810 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1404 MHz 5.6 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

3 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

3,072 -25.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

192 bit

Bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

134.8 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

16 KB (per SMX)

L2 Cache

2 MB

384 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

12.96 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

51.84 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.920 TFLOPS

1,244.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

51.84 GFLOPS (1:24)

Power

TDP

148 W

80 W

TDP (W)

148

80 -45.9%

Suggested PSU

300 W

250 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Kepler

GPU Name

GM204

GK106

Generation

GeForce 900

Quadro Kepler (Kx000)

Process Size

28 nm

28 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

2,540 million

Die Size

398 mm²

221 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.1M / mm²

11.5M / 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

Single-slot

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

241 mm 9.5 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

1x DVI2x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

329 USD

1,269 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

Quadro Fermi

Successor

GeForce 10

Quadro Maxwell

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