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

Tesla M40

CORE STATE GM200

VRAM 12 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1112 MHz

TDP 250 W

BUS WIDTH 384 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

39,192

geekbench_vulkan

31,001

44,602

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

Tesla M40

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,664

3,072 +84.6%

Shaders

1,664

3,072 +84.6%

TMUs

104

192 +84.6%

ROPs

56

96 +71.4%

Clocks

Base Clock

1050 MHz

948 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1112 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1502 MHz 6 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

12 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

12,288 +200.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

384 bit

Bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

288.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

3 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

106.8 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

213.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.920 TFLOPS

6.832 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

213.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

148 W

250 W

TDP (W)

148

250 +68.9%

Suggested PSU

300 W

600 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

8-pin EPS

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

GM204

GM200

Generation

GeForce 900

Tesla Maxwell (Mxx)

Process Size

28 nm

28 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

8,000 million

Die Size

398 mm²

601 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.1M / mm²

13.3M / 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

Dual-slot

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

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Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

No outputs

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

329 USD

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Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

Tesla Kepler

Successor

GeForce 10

Tesla Pascal

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