NVIDIA GeForce GT 1010 DDR4 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1010 DDR4 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 1010 DDR4 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 17% (1380MHz vs 1178MHz)
Lower TDP (20W vs 148W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
1408 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 1010 DDR4
0.706 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 970
+455%
3.92 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GT 1010 DDR4
543
GeForce GTX 970
+571%
3646
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GT 1010 DDR4
153
GeForce GTX 970
+1000%
1683
Graphics Card
Jan 2021
Release Date
Sep 2014
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1152 MHz
Base Clock
1050 MHz
1380 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
DDR4
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
16.80GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
2
SM Count
-
256
Shading Units
1664
16
TMUs
104
8
ROPs
56
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
11.04 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
22.08 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
-
-
-
706.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
29.44 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
148W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 2.0
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
GM204
GP108-200-A1
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
Pascal
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
74 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
6.1
CUDA
5.2
6.7
Shader Model
6.4
