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
L20
CORE STATE
AD102
VRAM
48 GB
CLOCK SPEED
2520 MHz
TDP
275 W
BUS WIDTH
384 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Ada Lovelace
PROCESS
5 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2023
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
L20
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,280
11,776
+820.0%
Shaders
1,280
11,776
+820.0%
TMUs
80
368
+360.0%
ROPs
48
128
+166.7%
SM Count
—
92
Clocks
Base Clock
924 MHz
1440 MHz
Boost Clock
1038 MHz
2520 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
5 Gbps effective
2250 MHz
18 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
6 GB
48 GB
VRAM (MB)
6,144
49,152
+700.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
192 bit
384 bit
Bandwidth
120.3 GB/s
864.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
96 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
49.82 GPixel/s
322.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
83.04 GTexel/s
927.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.657 TFLOPS
59.35 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)
927.4 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
59.35 TFLOPS (1:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
92
Tensor Cores
—
368
Power
TDP
—
275 W
TDP (W)
—
275
Suggested PSU
—
600 W
Power Connectors
None
1x 16-pin
Architecture
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Ada Lovelace
GPU Name
GM204
AD102
Generation
GeForce 900M
Server Ada
(Lxx)
Process Size
28 nm
5 nm
Transistors
5,200 million
76,300 million
Die Size
398 mm²
609 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
13.1M / mm²
125.3M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.4
1.4
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
CUDA
5.2
8.9
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
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 4.0 x16
Other
Production
End-of-life
Active
Predecessor
GeForce 800M
Server Ampere
Successor
GeForce 10 Mobile
Server Hopper