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 M4000

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 120 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2015

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

369

680

geekbench_metal

13,595

N/A

geekbench_opencl

28,528

20,128

geekbench_vulkan

31,001

24,640

passmark_directx_10

46

33

passmark_directx_11

71

49

passmark_directx_12

41

26

passmark_directx_9

143

113

passmark_g2d

764

673

passmark_g3d

9,638

6,680

passmark_gpu_compute

4,073

2,660

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 970

Quadro M4000

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,664

1,664 0.0%

Shaders

1,664

1,664 0.0%

TMUs

104

104 0.0%

ROPs

56

64 +14.3%

Clocks

Base Clock

1050 MHz

—

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

—

GPU Clock

—

773 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1502 MHz 6 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

8 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

8,192 +100.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

192.3 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

49.47 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

80.39 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.920 TFLOPS

2.573 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

80.39 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

148 W

120 W

TDP (W)

148

120 -18.9%

Suggested PSU

300 W

300 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

GM204

GM204

Generation

GeForce 900

Quadro Maxwell (Mx000)

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

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

4x DisplayPort 1.2

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

Successor

GeForce 10

Quadro Pascal

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