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

Quadro K6000

CORE STATE GK110B

VRAM 12 GB

CLOCK SPEED 902 MHz

TDP 225 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE Kepler

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2013

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

472

N/A

geekbench_opencl

18,991

23,944

geekbench_vulkan

18,516

25,394

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

geekbench_metal

N/A

7,932

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 970M

Quadro K6000

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,280

2,880 +125.0%

Shaders

1,280

2,880 +125.0%

TMUs

80

240 +200.0%

ROPs

48

48 0.0%

Clocks

Base Clock

924 MHz

797 MHz

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

902 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz 5 Gbps effective

1502 MHz 6 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

6 GB

12 GB

VRAM (MB)

6,144

12,288 +100.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

192 bit

384 bit

Bandwidth

120.3 GB/s

288.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

16 KB (per SMX)

L2 Cache

1536 KB

1536 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

49.82 GPixel/s

54.12 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

216.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.657 TFLOPS

5.196 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)

1.732 TFLOPS (1:3)

Power

TDP

—

225 W

TDP (W)

—

225

Suggested PSU

—

550 W

Power Connectors

None

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Kepler

GPU Name

GM204

GK110B

Generation

GeForce 900M

Quadro Kepler (Kx000)

Process Size

28 nm

28 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

7,080 million

Die Size

398 mm²

561 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.1M / mm²

12.6M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (11_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.2.175

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

5.2

3.5

Shader Model

6.8

6.5 (5.1)

Physical

Slot Width

MXM Module

Dual-slot

Length

—

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

2x DVI2x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

—

5,265 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 800M

Quadro Fermi

Successor

GeForce 10 Mobile

Quadro Maxwell

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