NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9700M GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1038MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

1232 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M +1992%

2.657 TFLOPS

GeForce 9700M GTS

0.127 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

GeForce 9700M GTS

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jul 2008

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

-

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

1280

Shading Units

48

80

TMUs

24

48

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.480 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.72 GTexel/s

-

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

127.2 GFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

60W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

G94

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

NB9E-GS

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

1.1

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

4.0

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