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

GRID K2

CORE STATE GK104

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 225 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Kepler

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2013

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

472

N/A

geekbench_opencl

18,991

10,593

geekbench_vulkan

18,516

N/A

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

5,557

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 970M

GRID K2

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,280

1,536 +20.0%

Shaders

1,280

1,536 +20.0%

TMUs

80

128 +60.0%

ROPs

48

32 -33.3%

Clocks

Base Clock

924 MHz

—

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

—

GPU Clock

—

745 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz 5 Gbps effective

1250 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

160.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

16 KB (per SMX)

L2 Cache

1536 KB

512 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

49.82 GPixel/s

23.84 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

95.36 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.657 TFLOPS

2.289 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)

95.36 GFLOPS (1:24)

Power

TDP

—

225 W

TDP (W)

—

225

Suggested PSU

—

550 W

Power Connectors

None

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Kepler

GPU Name

GM204

GK104

Generation

GeForce 900M

GRID (K2)

Process Size

28 nm

28 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

3,540 million

Die Size

398 mm²

294 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.1M / mm²

12.0M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (11_0)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.2.175

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

5.2

3.0

Shader Model

6.8

6.5 (5.1)

Physical

Slot Width

MXM Module

Dual-slot

Length

—

267 mm 10.5 inches

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

No outputs

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

—

5,199 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 800M

—

Successor

GeForce 10 Mobile

—

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