NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2014
Aug 2016
Generation
GeForce 900M
GeForce 10 Mobile
Type
Mobile
Mobile
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
924 MHz
1556 MHz
Boost Clock
1038 MHz
1734 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
1251 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5X
Memory Bus
192bit
256bit
Bandwidth
120.3GB/s
320.3GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1280
2560
TMUs
80
160
ROPs
48
64
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
2 MB
SM Count
-
20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
49.82 GPixel/s
111.0 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
83.04 GTexel/s
277.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.657 TFLOPS
8.878 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
83.04 GFLOPS
277.4 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
138.7 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
GP104
GPU Variant
N16E-GT-A2
N17E-G3-A1
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Pascal
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
16 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
7.2 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
314 mm²
Board Design
TDP
Unknown
150W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
No outputs
Power Connectors
None
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
5.2
6.1
Shader Model
6.7 (6.4)
6.4