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

Quadro 4000

CORE STATE GF100

VRAM 2 GB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 142 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Fermi

nm

PROCESS 40 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2010

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

472

N/A

geekbench_opencl

18,991

5,000

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

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 970M

Quadro 4000

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,280

256 -80.0%

Shaders

1,280

256 -80.0%

TMUs

80

32 -60.0%

ROPs

48

32 -33.3%

SM Count

—

8

Clocks

Base Clock

924 MHz

—

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

—

GPU Clock

—

475 MHz

Shader Clock

—

950 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz 5 Gbps effective

702 MHz 2.8 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

6 GB

2 GB

VRAM (MB)

6,144

2,048 -66.7%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

192 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

120.3 GB/s

89.86 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

64 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

1536 KB

512 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

49.82 GPixel/s

7.600 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

15.20 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.657 TFLOPS

486.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)

243.2 GFLOPS (1:2)

Power

TDP

—

142 W

TDP (W)

—

142

Suggested PSU

—

300 W

Power Connectors

None

1x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Fermi

GPU Name

GM204

GF100

Generation

GeForce 900M

Quadro Fermi (x000)

Process Size

28 nm

40 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

3,100 million

Die Size

398 mm²

529 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.1M / mm²

5.9M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (11_0)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

—

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

CUDA

5.2

2.0

Shader Model

6.8

5.1

Physical

Slot Width

MXM Module

Single-slot

Length

—

241 mm 9.5 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

1x DVI2x DisplayPort

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

PCIe 2.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

—

1,199 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 800M

Quadro FX Tesla

Successor

GeForce 10 Mobile

Quadro Kepler

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