GeForce GTX 970M vs GeForce GTX 970

GeForce GTX 970M
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 7 Oct 2014
GeForce GTX 970M
GeForce GTX 970
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Sep 2014
GeForce GTX 970

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 970M
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 970
    159%

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 970

Around 59% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 970

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 970

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


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 970MGeForce GTX 970
GPU NameGM204 (N16E-GT-A2)vsGM204 (GM204-200-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size398 mm²vs398 mm²
Transistors5,200 millionvs5,200 million
Shaders1280vs1664
Compute Units10vs13
Core clock1038 MHzvs1050 MHz
ROPs48vs56
TMUs80vs104

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 970MGeForce GTX 970
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 970MGeForce GTX 970
TDP0 wattsvs148 watts
Release Date7 Oct 2014vs19 Sep 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 970M
    49.80 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 970
    58.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 970M
    83.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 970
    109.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 970M
    120.30 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 970
    224.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 970M
    2657.30 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 970
    3494.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 970M
    9860
  • GeForce GTX 970
    15750

Points (higher is better)