NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1124MHz vs 1038MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M +84%

2.657 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

1.439 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Mar 2015

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

993 MHz

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

1124 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

1280

Shading Units

640

80

TMUs

40

48

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.98 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.96 GTexel/s

-

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1439 GFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

44.96 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GM107

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

N16P-GT

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

5.0

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

5.1

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