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
Quadro M3000M
CORE STATE
GM204
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
924 MHz
TDP
75 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell 2.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2015
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
Quadro M3000M
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,280
1,024
-20.0%
Shaders
1,280
1,024
-20.0%
TMUs
80
64
-20.0%
ROPs
48
32
-33.3%
Clocks
Base Clock
924 MHz
823 MHz
Boost Clock
1038 MHz
924 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
5 Gbps effective
1253 MHz
5 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
6 GB
4 GB
VRAM (MB)
6,144
4,096
-33.3%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
120.3 GB/s
160.4 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
2 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
49.82 GPixel/s
29.57 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
83.04 GTexel/s
59.14 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.657 TFLOPS
1.892 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)
59.14 GFLOPS (1:32)
Power
TDP
—
75 W
TDP (W)
—
75
Power Connectors
None
None
Architecture
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Maxwell 2.0
GPU Name
GM204
GM204
Generation
GeForce 900M
Quadro Maxwell-M
(Mx000M)
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5,200 million
5,200 million
Die Size
398 mm²
398 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
13.1M / mm²
13.1M / 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
MXM Module
MXM Module
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 800M
Quadro Kepler-M
Successor
GeForce 10 Mobile
Quadro Pascal-M