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

TITAN X Pascal

CORE STATE GP102

VRAM 12 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1531 MHz

TDP 250 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE Pascal

nm

PROCESS 16 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2016

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

369

N/A

geekbench_metal

13,595

N/A

geekbench_opencl

28,569

66,696

geekbench_vulkan

31,042

77,499

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

TITAN X Pascal

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,664

3,584 +115.4%

Shaders

1,664

3,584 +115.4%

TMUs

104

224 +115.4%

ROPs

56

96 +71.4%

SM Count

—

28

Clocks

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1417 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1531 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1251 MHz 10 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

12 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

12,288 +200.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5X

Memory Bus

256 bit

384 bit

Bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

480.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

48 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

3 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

147.0 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

342.9 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.920 TFLOPS

10.97 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

342.9 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

171.5 GFLOPS (1:64)

Power

TDP

148 W

250 W

TDP (W)

148

250 +68.9%

Suggested PSU

300 W

600 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Pascal

GPU Name

GM204

GP102

Generation

GeForce 900

GeForce 10

Process Size

28 nm

16 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

11,800 million

Die Size

398 mm²

471 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.1M / mm²

25.1M / 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

6.1

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

112 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

329 USD

1,199 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

GeForce 900

Successor

GeForce 10

GeForce 20

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