NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 555M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1038MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1136 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M +583%

2.657 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 555M

0.389 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

GeForce GT 555M

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Mar 2012

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 500M

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

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

1280

Shading Units

144

80

TMUs

24

48

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.700 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.20 GTexel/s

-

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

388.8 GFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

32.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

35W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GF116

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

N12E-GE2-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

2.1

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

5.1

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD Radeon R9 M385

2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS

3

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

4

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD Radeon RX 6500M

5

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD Radeon R7 M465X

6

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD Radeon RX 560 Mobile

7

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

8

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD Radeon 540X Mobile

9

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 755M Mac Edition

10

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD Radeon E9175 PCIe

Related News

1

AMD's Thunderous Strike: Ryzen 9 9950X3D Performance Scores Revealed for the First Time!

2

Continuous Decline in DRAM Memory Prices: Downward Trend Intensifies

3

NVIDIA GB202 Chip Unveiled for the First Time, to be Used in RTX 5090 with 512-bit GDDR7 Memory

4

Strix Halo Integrated Graphics Score Appears on Passmark, Currently Slightly Below RTX 3060 12GB

5

AMD Unveils New RX 9070 XT Graphics Card Performance: Positioned Between RX 7900 GRE and RX 7900 XT

6

Double the Excitement! AMD FSR 4.0 to Launch Alongside RX 9070 XT Graphics Card

7

CPU-Z Minor Update: Support for Intel's Four New Products and New Memory

8

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

9

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

10

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market