NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 545
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GT 545 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
1520 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 545 's Advantages
Lower TDP (70W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+844%
3.92 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 545
0.415 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
+1438%
3646
GeForce GT 545
237
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
May 2011
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 500
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
3
1664
Shading Units
144
104
TMUs
24
56
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
384 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.320 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
17.28 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
414.7 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
34.56 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
70W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GF116
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
1.17 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
238 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
2.1
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
