NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 30% (1038MHz vs 797MHz)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 120.3GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M +8%

2.657 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 780M

2.448 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 970M +15%

208

GeForce GTX 780M

180

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 970M +82%

53

GeForce GTX 780M

29

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

GeForce GTX 780M

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

May 2013

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 700M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

771 MHz

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

797 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

1280

Shading Units

1536

80

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.50 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

102.0 GTexel/s

-

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.448 TFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

102.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

122W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GK104

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

N14E-GTX-A2

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

5.2

CUDA

3.0

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

5.1

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