GeForce GTX TITAN X vs GeForce GTX 970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce GTX TITAN X and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX TITAN X 's Advantages
Released 6 months late
More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
1408 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1178MHz vs 1089MHz)
Lower TDP (148W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX TITAN X
+70%
6691
GeForce GTX 970
3920
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX TITAN X
+48%
5418
GeForce GTX 970
3646
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX TITAN X
+56%
2632
GeForce GTX 970
1683
Blender
GeForce GTX TITAN X
+78%
543
GeForce GTX 970
305
OctaneBench
GeForce GTX TITAN X
+14%
88
GeForce GTX 970
77
Graphics Card
Mar 2015
Release Date
Sep 2014
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1000 MHz
Base Clock
1050 MHz
1089 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
336.6GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
Render Config
3072
Shading Units
1664
192
TMUs
104
96
ROPs
56
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
3 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
104.5 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
209.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
6.691 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
209.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
148W
600 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM200
GPU Name
GM204
GM200-400-A1
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
8 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
601 mm²
Die Size
398 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
5.2
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
