GeForce GTX 970 vs TITAN X Pascal
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 12GB VRAM TITAN X Pascal to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Lower TDP (148W vs 250W)
TITAN X Pascal 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 30% (1531MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.4GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
1920 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3920
TITAN X Pascal
+179%
10970
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
3646
TITAN X Pascal
+169%
9844
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
1683
TITAN X Pascal
+185%
4812
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 970
15
TITAN X Pascal
+180%
42
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
30
TITAN X Pascal
+160%
78
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 970
40
TITAN X Pascal
+220%
128
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce GTX 970
42
TITAN X Pascal
+133%
98
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
44
TITAN X Pascal
+136%
104
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 970
98
TITAN X Pascal
+91%
188
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Aug 2016
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1417 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
1531 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1251 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5X
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
480.4GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
28
1664
Shading Units
3584
104
TMUs
224
56
ROPs
96
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
3 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
147.0 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
342.9 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
171.5 GFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
10.97 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
342.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
250W
300 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GP102
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
GP102-400-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
16 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
11.8 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
471 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
6.1
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
