NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 670M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1038MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

944 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M +230%

2.657 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 670M

0.804 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

GeForce GTX 670M

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Mar 2012

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 600M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

-

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

7

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

336

80

TMUs

56

48

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.372 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.49 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

803.7 GFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

66.98 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GF114

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

N13E-GS1-LP-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

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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