NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1038MHz vs 967MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 120.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 's Advantages

64 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M +2%

2.657 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M

2.599 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

GeForce GTX 870M

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

941 MHz

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

967 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

120.0GB/s

Render Config

-

1280

Shading Units

1344

80

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

24

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.08 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.3 GTexel/s

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2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.599 TFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

108.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

100W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GK104

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

N15E-GT-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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