NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1038MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

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

1184 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M +1007%

2.657 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 250M

0.24 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

GeForce GTS 250M

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jun 2009

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 200M

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

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

1280

Shading Units

96

80

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.00 GTexel/s

-

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

28W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GT215

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

N10E-GE-A2

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

1.2

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

4.1

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