NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680M and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

64 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 37% (1038MHz vs 758MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680M

2.038 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M +30%

2.657 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 680M

189

GeForce GTX 970M +10%

208

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 680M

42

GeForce GTX 970M +26%

53

GeForce GTX 680M

VS

GeForce GTX 970M

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Oct 2014

GeForce 600M

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

719 MHz

Base Clock

924 MHz

758 MHz

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

120.3GB/s

Render Config

-

1344

Shading Units

1280

112

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.22 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.82 GPixel/s

84.90 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

-

2.038 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.657 TFLOPS

84.90 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

83.04 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GM204

N13E-GTX-A2

GPU Variant

N16E-GT-A2

Kepler

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.0

CUDA

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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