GeForce GT 620 vs GeForce GTX 970
Summary
GeForce GT 620
100%
GeForce GTX 970
2157%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 620 |
| 99 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 970 . |
| Supports PhysX |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 970 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Around 2057% higher average synthetic performance. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 970
The GeForce GTX 970 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GT 620 | | GeForce GTX 970 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GF108 (GF108-100-KB-A1) | vs | GM204 (GM204-200-A1) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 116 mm² | vs | 398 mm² |
| Transistors | 585 million | vs | 5,200 million |
| Shaders | 96 | vs | 1664 |
| Compute Units | 2 | vs | 13 |
| Core clock | 700 MHz | vs | 1050 MHz |
| ROPs | 4 | vs | 56 |
| TMUs | 16 | vs | 104 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GT 620 | | GeForce GTX 970 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective | vs | 1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 4096 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 620 | | GeForce GTX 970 | |
|---|
| TDP | 49 watts | vs | 148 watts |
| Release Date | 15 May 2012 | vs | 19 Sep 2014 |
GeForce GT 620
2.80 GP/s
GeForce GTX 970
58.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GT 620
11.20 GT/s
GeForce GTX 970
109.20 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GT 620
14.40 GB/s
GeForce GTX 970
224.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GT 620
268.80 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 970
3494.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GT 620
730
GeForce GTX 970
15750
Points (higher is better)