GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 6 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1038 MHz

TDP —

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

L4

CORE STATE AD104

VRAM 24 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2040 MHz

TDP 72 W

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ada Lovelace

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2023

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

472

N/A

geekbench_opencl

18,991

140,838

geekbench_vulkan

18,516

116,491

passmark_directx_10

28

N/A

passmark_directx_11

42

N/A

passmark_directx_12

24

N/A

passmark_directx_9

99

N/A

passmark_g2d

381

N/A

passmark_g3d

5,704

N/A

passmark_gpu_compute

2,289

N/A

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 970M

L4

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,280

7,424 +480.0%

Shaders

1,280

7,424 +480.0%

TMUs

80

240 +200.0%

ROPs

48

80 +66.7%

SM Count

—

60

Clocks

Base Clock

924 MHz

795 MHz

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

2040 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz 5 Gbps effective

1563 MHz 12.5 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

6 GB

24 GB

VRAM (MB)

6,144

24,576 +300.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

192 bit

192 bit

Bandwidth

120.3 GB/s

300.1 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

1536 KB

48 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

49.82 GPixel/s

163.2 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

489.6 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.657 TFLOPS

30.29 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)

473.3 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

30.29 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

60

Tensor Cores

—

240

Power

TDP

—

72 W

TDP (W)

—

72

Suggested PSU

—

250 W

Power Connectors

None

None

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Ada Lovelace

GPU Name

GM204

AD104

Generation

GeForce 900M

Server Ada (Lxx)

Process Size

28 nm

5 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

35,800 million

Die Size

398 mm²

294 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.1M / mm²

121.8M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

5.2

8.9

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

MXM Module

Single-slot

Length

—

169 mm 6.7 inches

Height

—

56 mm 2.2 inches

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

No outputs

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Production

End-of-life

Active

Predecessor

GeForce 800M

Server Ampere

Successor

GeForce 10 Mobile

Server Hopper

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