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
Quadro M500M
CORE STATE
GM108S
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1124 MHz
TDP
30 W
BUS WIDTH
64 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2016
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
Quadro M500M
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,280
384
-70.0%
Shaders
1,280
384
-70.0%
TMUs
80
16
-80.0%
ROPs
48
8
-83.3%
Clocks
Base Clock
924 MHz
1029 MHz
Boost Clock
1038 MHz
1124 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
5 Gbps effective
900 MHz
1800 Mbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
6 GB
2 GB
VRAM (MB)
6,144
2,048
-66.7%
Memory Type
GDDR5
DDR3
Memory Bus
192 bit
64 bit
Bandwidth
120.3 GB/s
14.40 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
64 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
1024 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
49.82 GPixel/s
8.992 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
83.04 GTexel/s
17.98 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.657 TFLOPS
863.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)
26.98 GFLOPS (1:32)
Power
TDP
—
30 W
TDP (W)
—
30
Power Connectors
None
None
Architecture
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Maxwell
GPU Name
GM204
GM108S
Generation
GeForce 900M
Quadro Maxwell-M
(Mx000M)
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5,200 million
1,020 million
Die Size
398 mm²
77 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
13.1M / mm²
13.2M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.4
1.4
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
CUDA
5.2
5.0
Shader Model
6.8
6.7 (5.1)
Physical
Slot Width
MXM Module
MXM Module
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
MXM-A (3.0)
Other
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 800M
Quadro Kepler-M
Successor
GeForce 10 Mobile
Quadro Pascal-M