NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA P106 100
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 6GB VRAM P106 100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)
384 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA P106 100 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 45% (1709MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)
Lower TDP (120W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3.92 TFLOPS
P106 100
+11%
4.375 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
3646
P106 100
+11%
4068
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
1683
P106 100
+10%
1866
Blender
GeForce GTX 970
305
P106 100
+33%
406
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Jun 2017
GeForce 900
Generation
Mining GPUs
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1506 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
1709 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
192.2GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
10
1664
Shading Units
1280
104
TMUs
80
56
ROPs
48
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
1536 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
82.03 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
136.7 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
68.36 GFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.375 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
120W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GP106
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
GP106-100-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
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
6.8
