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

T550 Mobile

CORE STATE TU117

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1665 MHz

TDP 23 W

BUS WIDTH 64 bit

ARCHITECTURE Turing

nm

PROCESS 12 nm

LAUNCH DATE —

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

369

N/A

geekbench_metal

13,595

N/A

geekbench_opencl

28,528

35,521

geekbench_vulkan

31,001

30,801

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

T550 Mobile

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%

SM Count

—

16

Clocks

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1065 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1665 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1500 MHz 12 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

4,096 0.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

256 bit

64 bit

Bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

96.00 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

53.28 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

106.6 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.920 TFLOPS

3.410 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

106.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

6.820 TFLOPS (2:1)

Power

TDP

148 W

23 W

TDP (W)

148

23 -84.5%

Suggested PSU

300 W

—

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Turing

GPU Name

GM204

TU117

Generation

GeForce 900

Quadro Turing-M (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

IGP

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 Pascal-M

Successor

GeForce 10

Ampere-MW

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