GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1178 MHz

TDP 148 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

Tesla M4

CORE STATE GM206

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1072 MHz

TDP 50 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2015

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

369

N/A

geekbench_metal

13,595

N/A

geekbench_opencl

28,528

16,970

geekbench_vulkan

31,001

N/A

passmark_directx_10

46

N/A

passmark_directx_11

71

N/A

passmark_directx_12

41

N/A

passmark_directx_9

143

N/A

passmark_g2d

764

N/A

passmark_g3d

9,638

N/A

passmark_gpu_compute

4,073

N/A

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 970

Tesla M4

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,664

1,024 -38.5%

Shaders

1,664

1,024 -38.5%

TMUs

104

64 -38.5%

ROPs

56

32 -42.9%

Clocks

Base Clock

1050 MHz

872 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1072 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1375 MHz 5.5 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

4,096 0.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

128 bit

Bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

88.00 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

1024 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

34.30 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

68.61 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.920 TFLOPS

2.195 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

68.61 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

148 W

50 W

TDP (W)

148

50 -66.2%

Suggested PSU

300 W

250 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

GM204

GM206

Generation

GeForce 900

Tesla Maxwell (Mxx)

Process Size

28 nm

28 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

2,940 million

Die Size

398 mm²

228 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.1M / mm²

12.9M / 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

5.2

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Single-slot

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

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Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

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Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

No outputs

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

329 USD

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Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

Tesla Kepler

Successor

GeForce 10

Tesla Pascal

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