GeForce GTX 780M vs GeForce GTX 970M

GeForce GTX 780M
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 11 May 2013
GeForce GTX 780M
GeForce GTX 970M
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 7 Oct 2014
GeForce GTX 970M

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 780M
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 970M
    129%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 780M

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 970M

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 29% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 970M

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 970M

The GeForce GTX 970M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 780MGeForce GTX 970M
GPU NameGK104 (N14E-GTX-A2)vsGM204 (N16E-GT-A2)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size294 mm²vs398 mm²
Transistors3,540 millionvs5,200 million
Shaders1536vs1280
Compute Units8vs10
Core clock771 MHzvs1038 MHz
ROPs32vs48
TMUs128vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 780MGeForce GTX 970M
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs6144 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 780MGeForce GTX 970M
TDP122 wattsvs0 watts
Release Date11 May 2013vs7 Oct 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 780M
    24.67 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 970M
    49.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 780M
    98.70 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 970M
    83.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 780M
    160.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 970M
    120.30 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 780M
    2368.50 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 970M
    2657.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 780M
    7600
  • GeForce GTX 970M
    9860

Points (higher is better)

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