NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 41% (1468MHz vs 1038MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 120.3GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M

2.657 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q +182%

7.516 TFLOPS

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 970M +430%

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GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

10

GeForce GTX 970M

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GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jun 2017

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

1290 MHz

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

1468 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3GB/s

Render Config

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SM Count

20

1280

Shading Units

2560

80

TMUs

160

48

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

93.95 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

234.9 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

117.4 GFLOPS

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.516 TFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

234.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

150W

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Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GP104

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

N17E-G3-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

6.1

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.4

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