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
T600
CORE STATE
TU117
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1335 MHz
TDP
40 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Turing
PROCESS
12 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2021
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
T600
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,280
640
-50.0%
Shaders
1,280
640
-50.0%
TMUs
80
40
-50.0%
ROPs
48
32
-33.3%
SM Count
—
10
Clocks
Base Clock
924 MHz
735 MHz
Boost Clock
1038 MHz
1335 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
5 Gbps effective
1250 MHz
10 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
6 GB
4 GB
VRAM (MB)
6,144
4,096
-33.3%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
192 bit
128 bit
Bandwidth
120.3 GB/s
160.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
1024 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
49.82 GPixel/s
42.72 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
83.04 GTexel/s
53.40 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.657 TFLOPS
1.709 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)
53.40 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
3.418 TFLOPS (2:1)
Power
TDP
—
40 W
TDP (W)
—
40
Suggested PSU
—
200 W
Power Connectors
None
None
Architecture
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Turing
GPU Name
GM204
TU117
Generation
GeForce 900M
Quadro Turing
(Tx000)
Process Size
28 nm
12 nm
Transistors
5,200 million
4,700 million
Die Size
398 mm²
200 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
13.1M / mm²
23.5M / 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
7.5
Shader Model
6.8
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
MXM Module
Single-slot
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 800M
Quadro Volta
Successor
GeForce 10 Mobile
Workstation Ampere