NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1038MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 60.00GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M +412%

2.657 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460M

0.518 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

GeForce GTX 460M

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Sep 2010

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 400M

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

625 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

60.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

1280

Shading Units

192

80

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

24

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

21.60 GTexel/s

-

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

518.4 GFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

50W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GF106

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

N11E-GS-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Fermi

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

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