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 M3000M

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 924 MHz

TDP 75 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2015

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

369

N/A

geekbench_metal

13,595

N/A

geekbench_opencl

28,528

16,646

geekbench_vulkan

31,001

16,792

passmark_directx_10

46

26

passmark_directx_11

71

42

passmark_directx_12

41

23

passmark_directx_9

143

98

passmark_g2d

764

402

passmark_g3d

9,638

5,543

passmark_gpu_compute

4,073

2,139

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 970

Quadro M3000M

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,664

1,024 -38.5%

Shaders

1,664

1,024 -38.5%

TMUs

104

64 -38.5%

ROPs

56

32 -42.9%

Clocks

Base Clock

1050 MHz

823 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

924 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1253 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

160.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

29.57 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

59.14 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.920 TFLOPS

1.892 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

59.14 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

148 W

75 W

TDP (W)

148

75 -49.3%

Suggested PSU

300 W

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Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

GM204

GM204

Generation

GeForce 900

Quadro Maxwell-M (Mx000M)

Process Size

28 nm

28 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

5,200 million

Die Size

398 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.1M / mm²

13.1M / 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

5.2

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

MXM Module

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

—

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

—

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Portable Device Dependent

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

329 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

Quadro Kepler-M

Successor

GeForce 10

Quadro Pascal-M

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