Product Compare
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Sep 2014 | Mar 2012 |
| Generation | GeForce 900 | GeForce 600 |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 1050 MHz | 1006 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1178 MHz | 1058 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1753 MHz | 1502 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 4GB | 2GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 256bit | 256bit |
| Bandwidth | 224.4GB/s | 192.3GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Shading Units | 1664 | 1536 |
| TMUs | 104 | 128 |
| ROPs | 56 | 32 |
| L1 Cache | 48 KB (per SMM) | 16 KB (per SMX) |
| L2 Cache | 2 MB | 512 KB |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 65.97 GPixel/s | 33.86 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 122.5 GTexel/s | 135.4 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 3.920 TFLOPS | 3.250 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 122.5 GFLOPS | 135.4 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | GM204 | GK104 |
| GPU Variant | GM204-200-A1 | GK104-400-A2 |
| Architecture | Maxwell 2.0 | Kepler |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 5.2 billion | 3.54 billion |
| Die Size | 398 mm² | 294 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 148W | 195W |
| Suggested PSU | 300 W | 450 W |
| Outputs | 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a | 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 |
| Power Connectors | 2x 6-pin | 2x 6-pin |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (12_1) | 12 (11_0) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.2.175 |
| CUDA | 5.2 | 3.0 |
| Shader Model | 6.4 | 6.5 (5.1) |