NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition 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 440 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (65W vs 148W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 21.34GB/s)
1568 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition
0.311 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 970
+1160%
3.92 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2011
Release Date
Sep 2014
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1050 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
667 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
4GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
21.34GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
2
SM Count
-
96
Shading Units
1664
16
TMUs
104
4
ROPs
56
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.240 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
12.96 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
-
-
-
311.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
25.92 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
65W
TDP
148W
250 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF108
GPU Name
GM204
GF108-400-A1
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
Fermi
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.585 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
116 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
2.1
CUDA
5.2
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
