NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA P106 090

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 3GB VRAM P106 090 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA P106 090 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 30% (1531MHz vs 1178MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +66%

3.92 TFLOPS

P106 090

2.352 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 970 +24%

302

P106 090

243

GeForce GTX 970

VS

P106 090

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jul 2017

GeForce 900

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1354 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1531 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

-

Compute Units

-

1664

Shading Units

768

104

TMUs

48

56

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

73.49 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

73.49 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

36.74 GFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.352 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

73.49 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GP106

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

GP106-090-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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