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    GeForce GTX 970M vs GeForce GTX 1070

    GeForce GTX 970M
    Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 7 Oct 2014
    GeForce GTX 970M
    GeForce GTX 1070
    Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
    Release date: 10 Jun 2016
    GeForce GTX 1070

    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce GTX 970M
      100%
    • GeForce GTX 1070
      250%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 970M

    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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 1070

    This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
    Around 150% higher average synthetic performance.
    Supports PhysX
    Supports G-Sync
    Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
    Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
    GeForce GTX 1070

    HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1070

    The GeForce GTX 1070 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce GTX 970MGeForce GTX 1070
    GPU NameGM204 (N16E-GT-A2)vsGP104 (GP104-200-A1)
    Fab Process28 nmvs16 nm
    Die Size398 mm²vs314 mm²
    Transistors5,200 millionvs7,200 million
    Shaders1280vs1920
    Compute Units10vs15
    Core clock1038 MHzvs1506 MHz
    ROPs48vs64
    TMUs80vs120

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 970MGeForce GTX 1070
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
    Bus Width192 bitvs256 bit
    Memory Speed1253 MHz
    5012 MHz effective    		vs2002 MHz
    8008 MHz effective
    Memory Size6144 Mbvs8192 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 970MGeForce GTX 1070
    TDP0 wattsvs150 watts
    Release Date7 Oct 2014vs10 Jun 2016

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 970M
      49.80 GP/s
    • GeForce GTX 1070
      96.40 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 970M
      83.00 GT/s
    • GeForce GTX 1070
      180.70 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GTX 970M
      120.30 GB/s
    • GeForce GTX 1070
      256.30 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 970M
      2657.30 GFLOPs
    • GeForce GTX 1070
      5783.00 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce GTX 970M
      9860
    • GeForce GTX 1070
      24720

    Points (higher is better)

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