NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 PhysX Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 275 PhysX Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 896GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 127.0GB/s)
1424 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (148W vs 219W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+530%
3.92 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 275 PhysX Edition
0.622 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Feb 2010
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 200
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
1134 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
896MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
448bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
127.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
30
1664
Shading Units
240
104
TMUs
80
56
ROPs
28
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
224 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.72 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
50.64 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
622.1 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
77.76 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
219W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
G92B
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
G92-421-B1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
260 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
1.3
6.4
Shader Model
4.0
