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

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1216 MHz

TDP 165 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

472

474

geekbench_opencl

18,991

33,457

geekbench_vulkan

18,516

38,172

passmark_directx_10

28

53

passmark_directx_11

42

83

passmark_directx_12

24

46

passmark_directx_9

99

164

passmark_g2d

381

792

passmark_g3d

5,704

11,095

passmark_gpu_compute

2,289

4,753

geekbench_metal

N/A

15,163

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 970M

GTX 980

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,280

2,048 +60.0%

Shaders

1,280

2,048 +60.0%

TMUs

80

128 +60.0%

ROPs

48

64 +33.3%

Clocks

Base Clock

924 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

1216 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz 5 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 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

224.4 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

77.82 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.657 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)

155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

—

165 W

TDP (W)

—

165

Suggested PSU

—

450 W

Power Connectors

None

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

GM204

GM204

Generation

GeForce 900M

GeForce 900

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

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

—

549 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 800M

GeForce 700

Successor

GeForce 10 Mobile

GeForce 10

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