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
Tesla M4
CORE STATE
GM206
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1072 MHz
TDP
50 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell 2.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2015
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
Tesla M4
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,280
1,024
-20.0%
Shaders
1,280
1,024
-20.0%
TMUs
80
64
-20.0%
ROPs
48
32
-33.3%
Clocks
Base Clock
924 MHz
872 MHz
Boost Clock
1038 MHz
1072 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
5 Gbps effective
1375 MHz
5.5 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
6 GB
4 GB
VRAM (MB)
6,144
4,096
-33.3%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192 bit
128 bit
Bandwidth
120.3 GB/s
88.00 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
1024 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
49.82 GPixel/s
34.30 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
83.04 GTexel/s
68.61 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.657 TFLOPS
2.195 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)
68.61 GFLOPS (1:32)
Power
TDP
—
50 W
TDP (W)
—
50
Suggested PSU
—
250 W
Power Connectors
None
—
Architecture
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Maxwell 2.0
GPU Name
GM204
GM206
Generation
GeForce 900M
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
MXM Module
Single-slot
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
No outputs
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 800M
Tesla Kepler
Successor
GeForce 10 Mobile
Tesla Pascal