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 K4000

CORE STATE GK106

VRAM 3 GB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 80 W

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Kepler

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2013

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

472

N/A

geekbench_opencl

18,991

6,666

geekbench_vulkan

18,516

6,888

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

3,614

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 970M

Quadro K4000

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,280

768 -40.0%

Shaders

1,280

768 -40.0%

TMUs

80

64 -20.0%

ROPs

48

24 -50.0%

Clocks

Base Clock

924 MHz

—

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

—

GPU Clock

—

810 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz 5 Gbps effective

1404 MHz 5.6 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

6 GB

3 GB

VRAM (MB)

6,144

3,072 -50.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

192 bit

192 bit

Bandwidth

120.3 GB/s

134.8 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

16 KB (per SMX)

L2 Cache

1536 KB

384 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

49.82 GPixel/s

12.96 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

51.84 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.657 TFLOPS

1,244.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)

51.84 GFLOPS (1:24)

Power

TDP

—

80 W

TDP (W)

—

80

Suggested PSU

—

250 W

Power Connectors

None

1x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Kepler

GPU Name

GM204

GK106

Generation

GeForce 900M

Quadro Kepler (Kx000)

Process Size

28 nm

28 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

2,540 million

Die Size

398 mm²

221 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.1M / mm²

11.5M / 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

Single-slot

Length

—

241 mm 9.5 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

1x DVI2x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

PCIe 2.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

—

1,269 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 800M

Quadro Fermi

Successor

GeForce 10 Mobile

Quadro Maxwell

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