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 P400

CORE STATE GP107

VRAM 2 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1252 MHz

TDP 30 W

BUS WIDTH 64 bit

ARCHITECTURE Pascal

nm

PROCESS 14 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2017

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

369

N/A

geekbench_metal

13,595

N/A

geekbench_opencl

28,528

5,612

geekbench_vulkan

31,001

5,119

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 P400

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,664

256 -84.6%

Shaders

1,664

256 -84.6%

TMUs

104

16 -84.6%

ROPs

56

16 -71.4%

SM Count

—

2

Clocks

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1228 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1252 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1002 MHz 4 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

2 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

2,048 -50.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

64 bit

Bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

32.06 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

48 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

512 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

20.03 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

20.03 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.920 TFLOPS

641.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

20.03 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

10.02 GFLOPS (1:64)

Power

TDP

148 W

30 W

TDP (W)

148

30 -79.7%

Suggested PSU

300 W

200 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Pascal

GPU Name

GM204

GP107

Generation

GeForce 900

Quadro Pascal (Px000)

Process Size

28 nm

14 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

3,300 million

Die Size

398 mm²

132 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

Samsung

Density

13.1M / mm²

25.0M / 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

Single-slot

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

150 mm 5.9 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

69 mm 2.7 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

3x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

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 Maxwell

Successor

GeForce 10

Quadro Volta

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