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
Tesla P4
CORE STATE
GP104
VRAM
8 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1114 MHz
TDP
75 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Pascal
PROCESS
16 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2016
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
Tesla P4
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,280
2,560
+100.0%
Shaders
1,280
2,560
+100.0%
TMUs
80
160
+100.0%
ROPs
48
64
+33.3%
SM Count
—
20
Clocks
Base Clock
924 MHz
886 MHz
Boost Clock
1038 MHz
1114 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
5 Gbps effective
1502 MHz
6 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
6 GB
8 GB
VRAM (MB)
6,144
8,192
+33.3%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
120.3 GB/s
192.3 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
2 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
49.82 GPixel/s
71.30 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
83.04 GTexel/s
178.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.657 TFLOPS
5.704 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)
178.2 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
89.12 GFLOPS (1:64)
Power
TDP
—
75 W
TDP (W)
—
75
Suggested PSU
—
250 W
Power Connectors
None
None
Architecture
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Pascal
GPU Name
GM204
GP104
Generation
GeForce 900M
Tesla Pascal
(Pxx)
Process Size
28 nm
16 nm
Transistors
5,200 million
7,200 million
Die Size
398 mm²
314 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
13.1M / mm²
22.9M / 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
Single-slot
Length
—
168 mm
6.6 inches
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
No outputs
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 800M
Tesla Maxwell
Successor
GeForce 10 Mobile
Tesla Volta