NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce 945M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M NVIDIA GeForce 945M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 945M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 945M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1189MHz vs 1038MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M +191%

2.657 TFLOPS

GeForce 945M

0.913 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

GeForce 945M

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Apr 2016

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

1006 MHz

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

1189 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

16.02GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

384

80

TMUs

24

48

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.512 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.54 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

913.2 GFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

28.54 GFLOPS

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

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

23W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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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