GeForce GTX 970M vs GeForce GT 545 OEM

GeForce GTX 970M
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 7 Oct 2014
GeForce GTX 970M
GeForce GT 545 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 14 May 2011
GeForce GT 545 OEM
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Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 970M

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 545 OEM

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 970M

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 970M

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 970MGeForce GT 545 OEM
GPU NameGM204 (N16E-GT-A2)vsGF116 (GF116-400-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size398 mm²vs238 mm²
Transistors5,200 millionvs1,170 million
Shaders1280vs144
Compute Units10vs3
Core clock1038 MHzvs871 MHz
ROPs48vs16
TMUs80vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 970MGeForce GT 545 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 970MGeForce GT 545 OEM
TDP0 wattsvs105 watts
Release Date7 Oct 2014vs14 May 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 970M
    49.80 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 545 OEM
    5.23 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 970M
    83.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 545 OEM
    20.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 970M
    120.30 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 545 OEM
    64.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 970M
    2657.30 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 545 OEM
    501.40 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better