NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA NVS 300
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 512MB VRAM NVS 300 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 8 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 12.64GB/s)
1648 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA NVS 300 's Advantages
Lower TDP (18W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+9951%
3.92 TFLOPS
NVS 300
0.039 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Jan 2011
GeForce 900
Generation
NVS
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
790 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
12.64GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
2
1664
Shading Units
16
104
TMUs
8
56
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.080 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.160 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
39.36 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
148W
TDP
18W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DMS-59
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GT218
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
GT218-670-B1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
0.26 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
57 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
1.2
6.4
Shader Model
4.1
