NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M 's Advantages

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

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

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

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950M

1.439 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M +84%

2.657 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 950M

95

GeForce GTX 970M +118%

208

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 950M

27

GeForce GTX 970M +100%

54

GeForce GTX 950M

VS

GeForce GTX 970M

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Oct 2014

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

993 MHz

Base Clock

924 MHz

1124 MHz

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

120.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

1280

40

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.82 GPixel/s

44.96 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

1439 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.657 TFLOPS

44.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

83.04 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

GM204

N16P-GT

GPU Variant

N16E-GT-A2

Maxwell

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.0

CUDA

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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