GPU Comparison
GEFORCE
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
CORE STATE
GM204
VRAM
6 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1038 MHz
TDP
—
BUS WIDTH
192 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell 2.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2014
VS
GEFORCE
GeForce MX230
CORE STATE
GP108
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1531 MHz
TDP
10 W
BUS WIDTH
64 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Pascal
PROCESS
14 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2019
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
passmark_directx_10
passmark_directx_11
passmark_directx_12
passmark_directx_9
passmark_g2d
passmark_g3d
passmark_gpu_compute
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
GTX 970M
MX230
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,280
256
-80.0%
Shaders
1,280
256
-80.0%
TMUs
80
16
-80.0%
ROPs
48
16
-66.7%
SM Count
—
2
Clocks
Base Clock
924 MHz
1519 MHz
Boost Clock
1038 MHz
1531 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
5 Gbps effective
1502 MHz
6 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
6 GB
2 GB
VRAM (MB)
6,144
2,048
-66.7%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192 bit
64 bit
Bandwidth
120.3 GB/s
48.06 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
512 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
49.82 GPixel/s
24.50 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
83.04 GTexel/s
24.50 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.657 TFLOPS
783.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)
24.50 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
12.25 GFLOPS (1:64)
Power
TDP
—
10 W
TDP (W)
—
10
Power Connectors
None
None
Architecture
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Pascal
GPU Name
GM204
GP108
Generation
GeForce 900M
GeForce MX
(2xx)
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
5,200 million
1,800 million
Die Size
398 mm²
74 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Density
13.1M / mm²
24.3M / 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
6.1
Shader Model
6.8
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
MXM Module
IGP
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x4
Other
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 800M
—
Successor
GeForce 10 Mobile
—