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

T400

CORE STATE TU117

VRAM 2 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1425 MHz

TDP 30 W

BUS WIDTH 64 bit

ARCHITECTURE Turing

nm

PROCESS 12 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2021

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

369

N/A

geekbench_metal

13,595

N/A

geekbench_opencl

28,528

17,040

geekbench_vulkan

31,001

15,932

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

T400

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,664

384 -76.9%

Shaders

1,664

384 -76.9%

TMUs

104

24 -76.9%

ROPs

56

16 -71.4%

SM Count

—

6

Clocks

Base Clock

1050 MHz

420 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1425 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1250 MHz 10 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

2 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

2,048 -50.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

256 bit

64 bit

Bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

80.00 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

64 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

1024 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

22.80 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

34.20 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.920 TFLOPS

1,094.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

34.20 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

2.189 TFLOPS (2:1)

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

Turing

GPU Name

GM204

TU117

Generation

GeForce 900

Quadro Turing (Tx000)

Process Size

28 nm

12 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

4,700 million

Die Size

398 mm²

200 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.1M / mm²

23.5M / 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

7.5

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Single-slot

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

—

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

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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 Volta

Successor

GeForce 10

Workstation Ampere

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