NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 256MB VRAM GeForce Go 6800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1038MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 35.20GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

GeForce Go 6800

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Nov 2004

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce Go 6

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-III

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

-

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

550 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

35.20GB/s

Render Config

-

1280

Shading Units

-

80

TMUs

12

48

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.600 GTexel/s

-

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

45W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

NV41

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

130 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

3.0

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