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
P104-100
CORE STATE
GP104
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1733 MHz
TDP
—
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Pascal
PROCESS
16 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2017
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
P104-100
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,280
1,920
+50.0%
Shaders
1,280
1,920
+50.0%
TMUs
80
120
+50.0%
ROPs
48
64
+33.3%
SM Count
—
15
Clocks
Base Clock
924 MHz
1607 MHz
Boost Clock
1038 MHz
1733 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
5 Gbps effective
1251 MHz
10 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
6 GB
4 GB
VRAM (MB)
6,144
4,096
-33.3%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5X
Memory Bus
192 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
120.3 GB/s
320.3 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
2 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
49.82 GPixel/s
110.9 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
83.04 GTexel/s
208.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.657 TFLOPS
6.655 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)
208.0 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
104.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
Power
Suggested PSU
—
200 W
Power Connectors
None
1x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Pascal
GPU Name
GM204
GP104
Generation
GeForce 900M
Mining GPUs
Process Size
28 nm
16 nm
Transistors
5,200 million
7,200 million
Die Size
398 mm²
314 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
13.1M / mm²
22.9M / 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
MXM Module
Dual-slot
Length
—
267 mm
10.5 inches
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
No outputs
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 1.0 x4
Other
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 800M
—
Successor
GeForce 10 Mobile
—