GPU Comparison
GEFORCE
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
CORE STATE
GM204
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1178 MHz
TDP
148 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell 2.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2014
VS
GEFORCE
GeForce MX330
CORE STATE
GP108B
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1594 MHz
TDP
10 W
BUS WIDTH
64 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Pascal
PROCESS
14 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2020
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
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 970
MX330
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,664
384
-76.9%
Shaders
1,664
384
-76.9%
TMUs
104
24
-76.9%
ROPs
56
16
-71.4%
SM Count
—
3
Clocks
Base Clock
1050 MHz
1531 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1594 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
7 Gbps effective
1752 MHz
7 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
4 GB
2 GB
VRAM (MB)
4,096
2,048
-50.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
64 bit
Bandwidth
224.4 GB/s
56.06 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
512 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
25.50 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
38.26 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
3.920 TFLOPS
1,224.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)
38.26 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
19.13 GFLOPS (1:64)
Power
TDP
148 W
10 W
TDP (W)
148
10
-93.2%
Suggested PSU
300 W
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Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Pascal
GPU Name
GM204
GP108B
Generation
GeForce 900
GeForce MX
(3xx)
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
5,200 million
1,800 million
Die Size
398 mm²
74 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Density
13.1M / mm²
24.3M / 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
6.1
Shader Model
6.8
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
IGP
Length
267 mm
10.5 inches
—
Height
111 mm
4.4 inches
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x4
Other
Launch Price
329 USD
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Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 700
—
Successor
GeForce 10
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