NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2014
Mar 2014
Generation
GeForce 900
GeForce 800M
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1050 MHz
941 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
967 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
192bit
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
120.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1664
1344
TMUs
104
112
ROPs
56
24
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
2 MB
384 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
27.08 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
108.3 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
2.599 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
108.3 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
GK104
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
N15E-GT-A2
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Kepler
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
3.54 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
294 mm²
Board Design
TDP
148W
100W
Suggested PSU
300 W
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
5.2
3.0
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
3,646
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,683
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OctaneBench
77
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
15
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
30
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
40
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Blender
305
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