NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce 830M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

NVIDIA GeForce 830M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 2GB VRAM GeForce 830M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 830M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1150MHz vs 1038MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M +351%

2.657 TFLOPS

GeForce 830M

0.589 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

GeForce 830M

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

1082 MHz

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

1150 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

1280

Shading Units

256

80

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.200 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

18.40 GTexel/s

-

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

588.8 GFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

18.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

33W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GM108

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

Unknown

398 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

5.0

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

5.1

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