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

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

CORE STATE GM200

VRAM 6 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1076 MHz

TDP 250 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2015

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

472

1,321

geekbench_opencl

18,991

43,259

geekbench_vulkan

18,516

47,724

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

19,520

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 970M

GTX 980 Ti

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,280

2,816 +120.0%

Shaders

1,280

2,816 +120.0%

TMUs

80

176 +120.0%

ROPs

48

96 +100.0%

Clocks

Base Clock

924 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

1076 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz 5 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

6 GB

6 GB

VRAM (MB)

6,144

6,144 0.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

192 bit

384 bit

Bandwidth

120.3 GB/s

336.6 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

1536 KB

3 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

49.82 GPixel/s

103.3 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

189.4 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.657 TFLOPS

6.060 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)

189.4 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

—

250 W

TDP (W)

—

250

Suggested PSU

—

600 W

Power Connectors

None

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

GM204

GM200

Generation

GeForce 900M

GeForce 900

Process Size

28 nm

28 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

8,000 million

Die Size

398 mm²

601 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.1M / mm²

13.3M / 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

5.2

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

MXM Module

Dual-slot

Length

—

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

—

649 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 800M

GeForce 700

Successor

GeForce 10 Mobile

GeForce 10

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