GeForce 9700M GTS vs GeForce GTX 870M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9700M GTS and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 9700M GTS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (60W vs 100W)
GeForce GTX 870M 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock967MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)
1296 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9700M GTS
127
GeForce GTX 870M
+1946%
2599
Graphics Card
Jul 2008
Release Date
Mar 2014
GeForce 9M
Generation
GeForce 800M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
941 MHz
-
Boost Clock
967 MHz
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
51.20GB/s
Bandwidth
120.0GB/s
Render Config
6
SM Count
-
48
Shading Units
1344
24
TMUs
112
16
ROPs
24
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
64 KB
L2 Cache
384 KB
Theoretical Performance
8.480 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.08 GPixel/s
12.72 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
108.3 GTexel/s
127.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.599 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
108.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
60W
TDP
100W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
GK104
NB9E-GS
GPU Variant
N15E-GT-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.1
1.1
CUDA
3.0
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
